Russia sold Alaska to the United States for just $7.2 million, about two cents per acre. Today, many historians and analysts call it one of the greatest strategic mistakes in Russian history. But why ...

An unexpected Alaskan adventure ...

Alaska is poised to deliver on the promise of William H. Seward when he pressed the U.S. to purchase the state from Russia in 1867. To use the state’s untold resource wealth and strategic ...

President Trump aims to acquire Greenland, potentially the most significant acquisition since Alaska in 1867, due to its strategic and resource-rich value. Greenland, the world's largest non ...

The U.S. bought Alaska from Russia in 1867. To mark the 150th anniversary of the sale in 2017, we asked William L. Iggiagruk Hensley, a visiting professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s interest in buying Greenland mirrors the U.S. acquisition of Alaska in 1867 for $7.2 million. While the Alaska deal faced criticism, it proved successful after the ...

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, his ...

When U.S. Secretary of State William Seward purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867, he negotiated a price of $7.2 million—about $153 million today—for almost 600,000 square miles of territory ...