Alaska’s Sesquicentennial

(Courtesy of the Library of Congress)

It’s been 150 years since Russia sold Alaska to the United States. Two new books look at the man who sold the land and the man who bought it. There’s a lot of history to discover about Tsar Alexander the 2nd of Russia and William H Seward (photos below).

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