One political figure who forms a lesser-known part of the story is William H. Seward. The premiere episode of Manhunt depicts an attack on Seward the same night that Booth shot Lincoln ...
President Trump isn’t the first U.S. politician to be interested in Greenland — not by a long shot.
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Seward’s ice box, and Johnson’s polar bear garden proliferated. William H. Seward, Secretary of State 1861-69. (Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons) Unfortunately, the idea of Seward’s ...