"...in 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward struck a deal with a Russian envoy: The United States would purchase ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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., ...

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 ...

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March 17, 2026 • Sen. Lisa Murkowski votes against advancing a Trump-backed voter ID law, and state lawmakers consider a bill that would limit forever chemicals in drinking water. Plus, Sitkans go all ...