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 ...

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 ...

March 30th marks significant moments in US history, from the 1867 Alaska Purchase to the 1870 adoption of the 15th Amendment, ...

It is a moment from history that is difficult to imagine repeating today. That is why proposals such as President Donald Trump’s suggestion to annex Greenland are widely criticized as anachronistic.

Alaska’s long panhandle was shaped by an 1825 agreement between Russia and Britain that used vague language and inaccurate ...

March 30th marks significant historical turning points, from the birth of artist Vincent van Gogh in 1853 to the 1856 Treaty ...

Massive "No Kings" protests erupted across the U.S. in March 2026, with nationwide demonstrations against Trump’s expansion ...

On the morning of March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William Seward and Russian envoy Eduard de Stoeckl finalized an ...

The 49th state stands apart from the rest of the U.S. by virtue of distance, culture, and climate. It also counts a very ...

BC-First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 1856-The Russian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Great Britain, France and the Kingdom of ...

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 ...