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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US bought a chunk of Russia for $7,000,000 - and Kremlin is threatening to take it backIt was, quite possibly, the single shrewdest business deal ever struck. Yet, at the time, few people gave the savvy politician behind it much credit at all. In fact, William H. Seward was ...
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON, May 6, 1861. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The ...
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