Cartoon satirizing the Alaska purchase of 1867. Secretary of State William Seward rubs cooling salve (Alaska) on the feverish (and embattled) president, Andrew Johnson. The cartoon was published ...
President Trump isn’t the first U.S. politician to be interested in Greenland — not by a long shot.
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William Seward – rightly – receives plenty of ... So while it’s generally regarded that the Alaska Purchase was not ‘Seward’s Folly’, would it be fair to say that it was someone ...
On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. With a stroke of a pen, Tsar Alexander II had ceded Alaska, ...
January 8, 2025 at 5:06 p.m. ·9 min read On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. With a stroke of a pen, ...