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.

The tale of how and why Russia ceded its control over Alaska to the US 150 years ago is actually 2 tales and 2 intertwining ...

Russia had decided to sell Alaska, but the question was: how would America buy it? At the time, most Americans couldn’t ...

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, ...

Travel Guide to Alaska highlights the state's natural beauty, wildlife, Indigenous culture, and vast wilderness, popular for ...

America’s 20th and 19th century expansionists would have been delighted by the president-elect’s proposed land grab.

As far back as 1868, the year after he orchestrated the purchase of Alaska from Russia, secretary of state William H. Seward commissioned a study into the resources of Greenland and Iceland ...

William Seward was Lincoln’s Secretary of State. Expansion of the U.S.A. was one of Seward’s goals. One example was the ...

As climate change accelerates Arctic ice melt, opening up new shipping routes and resource extraction opportunities, ...

President Trump has recently expressed a desire to expand American territory to include Greenland, the Panama Canal, and even ...