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.

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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