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 ...

In fact, William H. Seward was ridiculed by some for signing ... his decision to push for the purchase of Alaska from Russia has been vindicated a thousand times over. For just £5.8m, America ...

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January 8, 2025 at 5:06 p.m. ·9 min read On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. With a stroke of a pen, ...