In the spring of 1867, after the Alaska purchase treaty passed ... at least lukewarm support for the treaty still ran cartoons mocking the purchase. The New York Herald supported the treaty ...

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The Alaska Purchase gave the United States a land mass of 586,412 square miles, an area about twice the size of Texas. But it came at a time when the United States had just ended the Civil War ...

CNN stated that the 1867 purchase of Alaska by the United States “didn’t work out so well” in an analysis article outlining potential problems if the U.S. pursued the purchase of Greenland.

To many Americans, Russian Alaska in the 1860s was little more than empty tundra. | Muring/Wikimedia Commons There was only one problem. Few Americans outside of Seward saw any reason to purchase ...

Russia began secretly offering Alaska for purchase as early as 1857. The president at the time, James Buchanan, seemed interested, but a deal never panned out. Russia tried again in 1861 ...

Wednesday marks the 150th anniversary of the US taking possession of Alaska following the 1867 purchase of the territory from Russia. The idea of an “Alaska Purchase” saw a renaissance last ...

ROBERT J. WALKER, before the Committee directed to investigate the rumors in regard to the Alaska purchase money. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

Wednesday marks the 150th anniversary of the US taking possession of Alaska following the 1867 purchase of the territory from Russia. The idea of an “Alaska Purchase” saw a renaissance last ...