President Trump isn’t the first U.S. politician to be interested in Greenland — not by a long shot.

On January 7th the president-elect declined to rule out using military might or economic warfare in his pursuit of Greenland ...

William Seward – rightly – receives plenty of ... So while it’s generally regarded that the Alaska Purchase was not ‘Seward’s Folly’, would it be fair to say that it was someone ...

In 1867, Secretary of State William Seward closed the deal acquiring Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million under ... The Senate passed the treaty a few days later, but the House held up funding the ...

Begich said William Seward, the U.S. secretary of state who orchestrated the Alaska purchase from Russia, also showed interest in purchasing Greenland. “Concepts like these are history defining ...

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, ...

Born in Florida, New York, William Henry Seward (1801-1872) served as governor of New ... is best known for negotiating the purchase in 1867 of Alaska from Russia, known as “Seward’s Folly”. Seward ...

Iggiagruk Hensley, a visiting professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage, to write about that historic sale. This is the article we published then, with minor updates. On March 30, 1867, U.S.

Begich said William Seward, the U.S. secretary of state who orchestrated the Alaska purchase from Russia, also showed interest in purchasing Greenland. "Concepts like these are history defining ...