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

In the spring of 1867, after the Alaska purchase treaty passed through the House and awaited its time before an eager Senate, newspapers and magazines across the country offered their take on Alaska.

(Barker made waves in 2009 when he argued that the American purchase of Alaska in 1867, for less than 2 cents per acre, was a bad deal from a purely financial investment perspective.) Here’s his ...

Comparisons have been drawn to the U.S. purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867. Both areas share cold climates, low population density, strategic locations, and oil reserves. Alaska, at 586,412 ...

buying 76,800 sq km in present day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico - the area known as Gadsden Purchase - from Mexico in 1854; buying Alaska from Russia in 1867; annexing independent ...

But if it were, how much would it cost the U.S.? Some have said the best comparison is looking at the U.S. purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867. Both Alaska and Greenland have cold ...

But if it were, how much would it cost the U.S.? Some have said the best comparison is looking at the U.S. purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867. Both Alaska and Greenland have cold ...

From the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 to the Texas annexation in 1845 and the acquisition of Alaska in 1867, territorial expansion ... turning it into a source of humor and memes.

In 1867, the then President Andrew Johnson considered buying Greenland around the same time as the purchase of Alaska from Russia. When Denmark was occupied by Nazi Germany, the US moved into ...