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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 ...

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The U.S. has sought to acquire the massive Arctic island since at least the 1860s. When William H. Seward bought Alaska, he really wanted Greenland too.

US Strategic Interest in the Arctic 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 ...

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.

While far-flung Alaska was the first Arctic territory to become a target for America’s strategic expansion, as engineered by Secretary of State William H. Seward, Greenland was on Seward’s strategic ...

While far-flung Alaska was the first Arctic territory to become a target for America’s strategic expansion as engineered by Secretary of State William H. Seward, Greenland was on Seward’s strategic ...

While many dismiss the idea entirely, or laugh it off as poppycock just as poor William H. Seward was laughed off by the literati of the 19th century (the dawn of America’s rise to great power ...