It was on March 30th, 1867 that the treaty drawn up by the Russian minister to the U.S., Eduard Andreevich Stoeckl,  and his friend, Secretary of State William H. Seward, the night before, was taken ...

In a recent survey that the Council on Foreign Relations conducted, members of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations ranked the Alaska Purchase as the twenty-sixth best decision in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Moreover, social media users shared an alleged document signed by Putin, claiming that the sale of Alaska was not legitimate.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Way back in 1991, as the once-mighty Soviet Union disintegrated and Westerners cheered, Vladimir Putin’s favorite rock and roll ...

On Seward’s Day we celebrate the 1867 purchase of Alaska, an agreement reached in Washington D.C. and St. Petersburg, Russia, seemingly far removed from the people who lived along Alaska’s ...

The U.S. State Department on Monday brushed off reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to look into reclaiming what he deems former Russian "real estate," including Alaska. "Let ...

President-elect Donald Trump is again signaling his interest in Greenland through a series of provocative statements in which he’s mused about the prospect of the U.S. taking ownership – perhaps by ...

It was on March 29th, 1867,  that the stirrings began that would change this great northern land into the territory then state of Alaska. It was on this day that the Russian minister to the U.S., ...

Way back in 1991, as the once-mighty Soviet Union disintegrated and Westerners cheered, Vladimir Putin’s favorite rock and roll band released “Don’t Fool Around, America,” a patriotic hit about an ...