A brief history of how Alaska became part of the United States: Russia sold it in 1867 for $7.2 million, a deal considered to ...

The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew Johnson.

From 1741 until Alaska was sold to the United States in 1867, the Russian empire claimed territory and peoples in North America. In this book, Ilya Vinkovetsky examines how Russia governed its only ...

The Steamer Vancouver brought a band and a crowd to watch Captain James Turnbull launch the newest Columbia River steamer, the Fannie Troup, on Sept. 30, 1864. Built in east Portland by James and W.H.

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