1839 – William H. Seward Jr., American general and banker (died 1920) 1857 – Henry Clay Folger, American businessman and philanthropist, ... 1901 – Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (died ...

William H. Seward called Alaska the “last star added to the American flag.” Today, it must become the first place America looks to solve the biggest challenges of our time: economic ...

William L. Iggiagruk Hensley The Conversation 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 ...

Bancroft Frederic; "The Life of William H. Seward" TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers.

When William H. Seward bought Alaska, he really wanted Greenland too. The U.S. became close to buying Greenland a few other times, but ultimately Denmark held onto it.

The United States borders the Arctic via Alaska, which was acquired from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million—a deal mocked at the time as “Seward’s Folly,” named after US Secretary of State William H.

O n March 30th, 1867, the American Secretary of State, William H. Seward, signed a treaty with the Russian Minister, Baron Edouard de Stoeckl, to conclude what was perhaps the shrewdest purchase in ...

The huge geographical distance between Alaska and the Russian mainland made defence and governance even more difficult. It was in 1859 when the Russian officials began negotiations with the US about ...

In 1865, then American President Andrew Johnson's Secretary of State William H Seward presented a proposal to the Danish government to buy Greenland and Iceland, after purchasing Alaska from the ...

In 1867, after buying Alaska from Russia, US Secretary of State William H Seward led negotiations to buy Greenland from Denmark, but failed to reach any agreement.