"The purchase of Alaska in 1867 marked the end of Russian efforts to expand trade and settlements to the Pacific coast of North America, and became an important step in the United States rise as a ...

Two Chinese vessels and two Russian patrol vessels were seen by the U.S. Coast Guard near the maritime boundary between the U ...

“They explicitly told us: Do not include Russia,” said Vladimir Romanovsky, a Russian geophysicist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He will soon begin working with Canada instea ...

Teichmann’s employer, the London fur merchants Oppenheim and Co., had a longstanding contract with the Russian America Company to buy their Alaska furs. They had sent Teichmann undercover to the ...

The United States is watching growing cooperation between Russia and China in the Arctic closely and some of their recent ...

The influx of civilians and military personnel into Alaska had a devastating effect on the Native Alaskans, who had already suffered a negative impact. In the century of Russian and American ...

Seward, the secretary of state who negotiated the treaty for Alaska. He was greeted as a hero, the most famous person ever to visit the former Russian colony — and also as someone who might ...

"The purchase of Alaska in 1867 marked the end of Russian efforts to expand trade and settlements to the Pacific coast of North America, and became an important step in the United States rise as a ...