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.

The tale of how and why Russia ceded its control over Alaska to the US 150 years ago is actually 2 tales and 2 intertwining histories.

Russia had decided to sell Alaska, but the question was: how would America buy it? At the time, most Americans couldn’t imagine what they would do with such a cold, icy region.

Travel Guide to Alaska highlights the state's natural beauty, wildlife, Indigenous culture, and vast wilderness, popular for cruising and outdoor activities.

America’s 20th and 19th century expansionists would have been delighted by the president-elect’s proposed land grab.

Greenland is not an island; it is a mirror — a reflection of the most pressing issues of our time: power, resources, sovereignty. The more Trump proceeds with restoring his Arctic ambitions, the greater the need to look behind headlines and to get used to the deeper meaning of this glacial temptation.

As far back as 1868, the year after he orchestrated the purchase of Alaska from Russia, secretary of state William H. Seward commissioned a study into the resources of Greenland and Iceland ...

The state Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation is currently recruiting board members for three Kenai Peninsula citizen advisory boards. Seats are available on the Seward, Kenai River Special Management Area and Kachemak Bay boards.

The iconic Anchorage neighborhood has seen plenty of changes in the past eight decades and some consider it more of an attitude than a place.

Greenland is covered by the world's second-largest ice sheet, beaten only by Antarctica. Under this vast expanse of ice lies a hidden world of colossal canyons, prehistoric plant remnants, and even traces of human activity. In northwestern Greenland, the buried ruins of a US military research base remain concealed beneath the frozen surface.

The threat of the American invasion — and the reality of American tariffs — spurred Canadian Confederation more than 150 years ago.

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