In 1859, Russia offered to sell Alaska to the United States in an attempt to snub their rival, Great Britain, but the sale of the land was delayed by the US Civil War. Secretary of State William ...

After all, the Alaska purchase is now recognized as one of the great successes of American foreign policy: as a pennies-on-the-dollar purchase of a territory that enhanced American power, American ...

About 150 years ago, a few days after summer solstice, the skies above the Diomede Islands were heavy with smoke from whaling ships set ablaze by Confederate sailors who didn’t ...

The president’s proposal to acquire a vast and mostly unknown territory is an unconstitutional power grab that will undermine American democracy by bringing thousands of potentially treasonous ...

On this day in 1867, United States Secretary of State William Seward signs a deal acquiring Alaska, an agreement that was ridiculed by some as “Seward’s Folly” and opposed in the House.

And the only Civil War ensign -- Yankee or rebel -- to have flown in action in Alaska. The 150th anniversary of the first shot of America's deadliest conflict has been widely noted this month.

There was one central reason the Civil War happened. ... More than 600,000 soldiers died during the American Civil War. ... They also supported an effort to purchase Cuba and add it as a slave state.

Russia tried again in 1861, but by that time the U.S. government was a little bit busy with the Civil War. Trump reportedly wants to buy Greenland. So did the Truman administration.

JUNEAU — In a landmark ruling, an Alaska state court judge has upheld adults' right to possess and use small amounts of marijuana within their homes. The American Civil Liberties Union, which ...

Wednesday marks the 150th anniversary of the US taking possession of Alaska following the 1867 purchase of the territory from Russia. Posted 2017-10-18T18:02:15+00:00 - Updated 2017-09-21T19:02:32 ...