Donald Trump wants to buy Greenland. Mainstream media strives to coat this nonsense in a veneer of rationality by citing ...
How and why Russia ceded its control over Alaska to the United States 150 years ago is actually two tales and two ...
Carter’s admirable post-White House life, especially his Habitat for Humanity work, continually enhanced his personal ...
Russia had decided to sell Alaska, but the question was: how would America buy it? At the time, most Americans couldn’t ...
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 U.S. bought Alaska from Russia in 1867. To mark the 150th anniversary of the sale in 2017, we asked William L. Iggiagruk Hensley, a visiting professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage ...
President-elect Donald Trump’s interest in buying Greenland mirrors the U.S. acquisition of Alaska in 1867 for $7.2 million. While the Alaska deal faced criticism, it proved successful after the ...