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.

Let’s set aside for a moment the questions of the legality and constitutionality of Trump’s action and ask instead: Where did ...

Empire Archives is a series printed every Saturday featuring a short compilation of headline stories in the Juneau Empire from archived editions in 1985, 1995 and 2005. They include names, AP style ...

By contrast, in Canada, there was near Trump has also found time to start a conversation we have not heard since the days of William Henry Seward. Who was that, you ask? Seward was the U.S. secretary ...

The threat of the American invasion — and the reality of American tariffs — spurred Canadian Confederation more than 150 ...

Two residential properties in Stark County sold for more than $550,000, according to the latest real estate transfers.

The acquisition of what would become the US Virgin Islands was the brainchild of Secretary of State William Henry Seward, a move seen by the US State Department as admirably benign. The treaty ...

The last time America was in this much turmoil, during its first civil war, Abraham Lincoln’s secretary of state, William Henry Seward, proposed an invasion of Canada, since they already had ...

In keeping with tradition, Donald Trump is attending the St John’s Episcopal Church this morning in Washington’s Lafayette ...

In most contemporary locales, transport is something that is taken for granted. Resources such as medical supplies are generally easily accessible. However, in Alaska in the early twentieth century, ...