Civil War veteran Charles Raymond was 27 when he accepted an assignment to visit the new U.S. territory of Alaska, a place so ...

Two years after Secretary of State William Seward had brokered the purchase of Alaska from Russia, U.S. leaders suspected the British trading post at Fort Yukon might be located on American soil.

Charles Walker Raymond’s six-month mission in 1869 resulted in not only in the establishment of America’s newest trading post ...

The United States purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million, securing access to the Pacific northern rim and ...

Diego Garcia, an atoll and one of the largest of the 52 islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean, is geographically part of the Chagos Archipelago -- a British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), which is ...

In 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William Seward reached an agreement with Russia for the purchase of Alaska for $7.2 million in gold. File Photo by Library of Congress/UPI In 1870, the 15th ...

1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward reached agreement with Russia to purchase the territory of Alaska for $7.2 million, a deal ridiculed by critics as “Seward’s Folly.” ...

Alaska, of course ... an asset he saw as disposable. Secretary Seward had prescience like few politicians before or since, when he undertook to purchase the territory. He suffered the slings ...

Library of Congress At 4 in the morning on March 30, 1867, Secretary of State William Seward signed a treaty buying Russian America—that is, Alaska ... decades of its purchase, American ...