Charles Walker Raymond’s six-month mission in 1869 resulted in not only in the establishment of America’s newest trading post ...

Many ridiculed Secretary of State William Seward for purchasing Alaska from Russia in 1867. But he turned out to be quite the shrewd businessman. National Treasure: Amelia Earhart Designed a New ...

Library of Congress At 4 in the morning on March 30, 1867, Secretary of State William Seward signed a treaty buying Russian America—that is, Alaska—for the cost of two cents per acre ...

A totem at the park features an effigy of William Seward, the secretary of state who oversaw the transfer of Alaska from Russia to the United States in the 1860s. The totem – mocking him – has ...

Russia initially offered Alaska to the United States in 1859, but the American Civil War delayed negotiations. In March 1867, Secretary of State William Seward revived the proposal, finalising an ...

The U.S. Coast Guard decommissioned the 39-year-old cutter Mustang (WPB 1310) during a ceremony in Seward, Alaska, on Tuesday. Capt. Christopher Culpepper, commander of Coast Guard Sector Western Alas ...

Civil War veteran Charles Raymond was 27 when he accepted an assignment to visit the new U.S. territory of Alaska, a place so ...