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Trump’s push to control Greenland echoes US purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867
This is the article we published then, with minor updates. On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession.
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There Are Two Versions of the Story of How the U.S. Purchased Alaska From Russia
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 ...
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W. H. SEWARD'S LETTER TO A YOUNG GIRL; The Playful Epistle He Wrote at Twenty to a Friend of His Sister.
From The Troy Times.WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article. Subscribers ...
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Review: William Henry Seward
Reviewed Work: Autobiography of William H. Seward from 1801 to 1834. With a Memoir of His Life and Selections from His Letters from 1831 to 1846 by William H. Seward, Frederick W. Seward ...