Jan 8, 2025 · “In 1868 US Secretary William H. Seward, the architect of the Alaska Purchase, identified Greenland as an acquisition target that could stabilize our nascent supply chain w/critical minerals like cryolite, while bolstering US naval reach.

Jan 21, 2025 · Trump’s unsolicited offer made waves around the world as members of the diplomatic and national security community grappled with this sudden, unexpected prospect of an American Arctic territorial expansion, which would have been the first since 1867, when Secretary of State William H. Seward successfully engineered his vision for America to ...

Dec 26, 2024 · Most felt that way about William H. Seward’s earlier vision for America’s global expansion to both the tropics and the polar regions -- which then, like Trump’s, was widely dismissed as...

This from a report compiled by a mining engineer named Benjamin Mills Pierce in late 1867, on the recommendation of then-American secretary of state William H. Seward. Seward had been keen on expansion—particularly to the North—throughout his political career.

Aug 17, 2019 · On March 30, 1867, Secretary of State William H. Seward agreed to purchase Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million. Critics attacked Seward for the secrecy surrounding the deal, which came to be...

Mar 30, 2017 · 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, Tsar Alexander II had ceded Alaska , his country’s last remaining foothold in North America, to the United States for US$7.2 million.

Aug 17, 2019 · Most of Greenland is covered by Arctic ice. AP Photo/John McConnico. Reports has urged aides. On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de...

The peninsula was named after William H. Seward, the United States Secretary of State who negotiated the Purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867.

May 31, 2016 · Alaskans remember William Seward as the secretary of state who bought Alaska for $7.2 million, but acquiring Russian claims to America's Northwest was only one of his many important...

The original pole at Tongass was a shame pole, erected in the 1880s to ridicule Secretary of State William H. Seward for failing to repay the gifts he had received from Chief Ebbits, clan leader of the Taant’a k wáan Tei k weidí and one of the most high-ranking men at Tongass Village.