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.

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

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.

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.

Greenland is not an island; it is a mirror — a reflection of the most pressing issues of our time: power, resources, ...

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 ...