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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Yet, the author went there. She wrote, “When U.S. Secretary of State William Seward purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867, he negotiated a price of $7.2 million — about $153 million today ...