"The purchase of Alaska in 1867 marked the end of Russian ... The United States and Russia today are next-door neighbors. The two nations are separated by just 2.4 miles of ocean in the Bering ...

The 1867 transfer of Alaska, formally known as the Alaska Purchase, occurred under President Andrew Johnson’s administration. The U.S. purchased the territory from Russia for $7.2 million, a sum that, ...

Will Trump surrender Alaska to Putin? It’s a peninsula closer to Russia than the continental United States. Maybe Putin, like Trump, believes that he is always being cheated and Putin views Alaska as ...

"The purchase of Alaska in 1867 marked the end of Russian ... The United States and Russia today are next-door neighbors. The two nations are separated by just 2.4 miles of ocean in the Bering ...

Russia has imposed hurdles of its own on cooperation with the West. Syndonia Bret-Harte, the science director of Toolik Field Station and a University of Alaska Fairbanks professor. “It is like ...

Our journey through Alaska was more than just an exploration of conservation; it was a discovery of how nature can serve as a ...

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

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Oct. 18 has held special significance for Alaska since 1867 when territories that now comprise the state of Alaska were officially sold from Russia to the United States in ...

(U.S. Forest Service map) After the U.S. 1867 purchase of Alaska from Russia, the inherited treaty needed clarification. In the 1890s, Canada and the U.S. jointly decided to delineate the border ...