Yet, the author went there. She wrote, “When U.S. Secretary of State William Seward purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867, he negotiated a price of $7.2 million — about $153 million today ...

One political figure who forms a lesser-known part of the story is William H ... in the death of the president. Seward served as the Secretary of State during Abraham Lincoln's presidency.

President Trump isn’t the first U.S. politician to be interested in Greenland — not by a long shot.

William Seward, the Secretary of State responsible for purchasing Alaska from Russia in 1867, commissioned a report in 1868 titled, “A Report on the Resources of Iceland and Greenland.” ...