The prevailing narrative of the Alaska purchase, pushed in history textbooks for decades, doesn’t reflect public opinion at the time more than 150 years ago.
Russia had decided to sell Alaska, but the question was: how would America buy it? At the time, most Americans couldn’t ...
How and why Russia ceded its control over Alaska to the United States 150 years ago is actually two tales and two ...
As climate change accelerates Arctic ice melt, opening up new shipping routes and resource extraction opportunities, ...
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, ...
Greenland is covered by the world's second-largest ice sheet, beaten only by Antarctica. Under this vast expanse of ice lies ...
President Trump has recently expressed a desire to expand American territory to include Greenland, the Panama Canal, and even ...
The threat of the American invasion — and the reality of American tariffs — spurred Canadian Confederation more than 150 ...
As Donald Trump makes his return to the White House, he is poised to shatter long-held taboos, particularly those surrounding territorial expansion.
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