"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." One political figure who forms a lesser-known part of the story is William H. Seward. The premiere ...

circa 1950: A typical scene of the Aleutian Islands with a volcanic cone in the backgroundJ. Malcolm Greany/Three Lions/Getty Images Alaska was controversially purchased by the US from Russia in 1867.

We're heading back in time to the 1800s to revisit the Seward family.William Henry Seward served as Governor, U.S. Senator, and Secretary of State for Abraham L ...

A librarian from suburban Baltimore is getting skewered for failing to correctly identify William H. Seward as the author of an 1867 letter in Monday’s final “Jeopardy!” round. The clue was: “In 1867 ...

(WHTM) On October 18, 1867, the flag of Russia at the governor’s house in Sitka, Alaska was lowered, a United States flag rose in its place, and America took control of the Alaskan territories. Mocked ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. First as governor of New York (1839–43) and later as a U.S. senator (1849–61), William H. Seward advocated strongly ...

LORD OF ALASKA: BARANOV AND THE RUSSIAN ADVENTURE—Hector Chevigny —Viking ($3). ALASKA UNDER ARMS—Jean Potter—Macmillan ($2). These two books reflect the fact that U.S. readers have at last caught up ...