William L. Iggiagruk Hensley The Conversation 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 ...

When William H. Seward bought Alaska, he really wanted Greenland too. The U.S. became close to buying Greenland a few other times, but ultimately Denmark held onto it.

The United States borders the Arctic via Alaska, which was acquired from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million—a deal mocked at the time as “ Seward’s Folly,” named after US Secretary of State William H.

In 1867, US Secretary of State William Seward negotiated the purchase of what is now the State of Alaska from the Russian Empire for the bargain basement price of $7.2 million, which translated ...

In 1865, then American President Andrew Johnson's Secretary of State William H Seward presented a proposal to the Danish government to buy Greenland and Iceland, after purchasing Alaska from the ...

In 1867, after buying Alaska from Russia, US Secretary of State William H Seward led negotiations to buy Greenland from Denmark, but failed to reach any agreement.

Purchasing Greenland has been advocated by American secretaries of state such as James F. Byrnes, William H. Seward, and other top government officials privately for years and now publicly by Trump.

The United States has attempted to purchase Greenland from Denmark several times, including in 1867, the year Secretary of ...

So while the world was surprised by Trump 1.0’s initial 2019 interest in Greenland and mocked it mercilessly (as contemporaries did of Seward’s then-widely lampooned “folly”), and missed the long, ...

Former Secretaries of State James F. Byrnes and William H. Seward long advocated acquiring Greenland, and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller at least considered making a move on Greenland.

While many dismiss the idea entirely, or laugh it off as poppycock just as poor William H. Seward was laughed off by the literati of the 19th century (the dawn of America’s rise to great power ...

Trunk Bay on St. John island and in Virgin Islands National Park, U.S. Virgin Islands. Courtesy of Ben Whitney. We begin with one of the most overlooked figures in American history: William Seward.