"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 ...

GREAT social and political movements which end either in peaceful or in violent revolution develop two wholly distinct sets of leaders. First come the agitators and fanatics, crying in the wilderness, ...

The Seward family will be the subject of three talks in the Auburn area over the next week.

A NEW generation has come upon the stage since William H. Seward, past seventy years old, a battered, exhausted, outworn statesman, died in 1872. Men are yet living who were his junior associates in ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...