Mar 30, 2017 · As the United States celebrates the signing of the Treaty of Cession, we all – Alaskans, Natives and Americans of the lower 48 – should salute Secretary of State William H. Seward, the man who eventually brought democracy and the rule of law to Alaska.

Jan 21, 2025 · Trump’s unsolicited offer made waves around the world as members of the diplomatic and national security community grappled with this sudden, unexpected prospect of an American Arctic territorial expansion, which would have been the first since 1867, when Secretary of State William H. Seward successfully engineered his vision for America to ...

Mar 29, 2017 · One hundred and fifty-five years ago, 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, his country’s last remaining foothold in North America, to the United States for US$7.2 million.

Dec 26, 2024 · Most felt that way about William H. Seward’s earlier vision for America’s global expansion to both the tropics and the polar regions -- which then, like Trump’s, was widely dismissed as...

This from a report compiled by a mining engineer named Benjamin Mills Pierce in late 1867, on the recommendation of then-American secretary of state William H. Seward. Seward had been keen on expansion—particularly to the North—throughout his political career.

May 31, 2016 · Alaskans remember William Seward as the secretary of state who bought Alaska for $7.2 million, but acquiring Russian claims to America's Northwest was only one of his many important...

Aug 17, 2019 · Most of Greenland is covered by Arctic ice. AP Photo/John McConnico. Reports has urged aides. On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de...

The transaction took place during the administration of President Andrew Johnson and was championed by Secretary of State William H. Seward, who believed it would enhance America's global standing.

Mar 29, 2017 · One hundred and fifty years ago, 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,...

On March 29, 1867, literally in the middle of the night, diplomats hammered out a deal that transferred the Russian Empire’s claims in the New World to the United States for $7.2 million. One-hundred-fifty years later, Alaska knows the name of Secretary of State William H. Seward, the American who negotiated the purchase of Alaska.