"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 ...

A thousand years from now Alaska will be producing more richly than it is today and the time will come when Alaska will be divided into at least three States, and in every hamlet of those three States ...

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.

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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 ...