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‘Seward’s Folly’ is a myth. Spread the word.
The prevailing narrative of the Alaska purchase, pushed in history textbooks for decades, doesn’t reflect public opinion at the time more than 150 years ago.
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Seward's Attitude Toward Compromise and Secession, 1860-1861
OF the great leaders of the war period, none has been so commonly misunderstood and so frequently misrepresented as William H. Seward. This has been chiefly due to an erroneous conception of his ...
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Opinion: Trump’s push to control Greenland echoes US purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867
How and why Russia ceded its control over Alaska to the United States 150 years ago is actually two tales and two ...
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US bought a chunk of Russia for $7,000,000 - and Kremlin is threatening to take it back
In fact, William H. Seward was ridiculed by some for signing the cheque. In the 157 years since then-US Secretary of State Seward increased US soil by over half a million square miles, his ...