Today's installment concludes The Alaska Purchase,our selection from Charles Sumner's Speech to the Senate During the Alaskan Treaty Ratification

Dispatches between Seward and the Russian Ambassador an then discussion of the treaty itself.Continuing The Alaska Purchase,our selection from

Obviously something like a crisis was at hand with regard to these possessions. The existing government was not adequate.Continuing The Alaska

I have heard that it was as long ago as the administration of President Polk. It is within my knowledge that the Russian Government was sounded on the

The coast of British Columbia, next below, was discovered by George Vancouver, in 1790, and that of Oregon, still farther down, by Robert Gray, who,

In his voyage Bering was struck by the absence of such great and high waves as in other places are common to the open sea, and he observed fir-trees