Yet, the author went there. She wrote, “When U.S. Secretary of State William Seward purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867, he negotiated a price of $7.2 million — about $153 million today ...
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US bought a chunk of Russia for $7,000,000 - and Kremlin is threatening to take it backIn fact, William H. Seward was ridiculed by some for signing the cheque. In the 157 years since then-US Secretary of State Seward increased US soil by over half a million square miles, his ...
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Trump isn’t the first U.S. politician with his eye on GreenlandPresident Trump isn’t the first U.S. politician to be interested in Greenland — not by a long shot.
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Robert J. Walker, a 19th century senator turned Washington-based lobbyist and one of the driving forces behind the annexation ...
William Seward, the Secretary of State responsible for purchasing Alaska from Russia in 1867, commissioned a report in 1868 titled, “A Report on the Resources of Iceland and Greenland.” ...
Thomas Bailey Aldrich’s ‘Our New Neighbors at Ponkapog’ The possibility of the United States acquiring Greenland has been kicking around Washington for so long that William Seward had the ...
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