Alaska Purchase: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: Council on Foreign Relations - The Alaska Purchase. Oct 02, 2026
Cross-reference added. Jan 30, 2026
Add new Web site: Al Jazeera - Why did Russia sell Alaska to the United States? Jan 23, 2026
Add new Web site: USDA - Natural Resources Conservation Service - Land Ownership In Alaska (PDF). Oct 15, 2025
Added a Top Questions section. Aug 13, 2025
Media added. Aug 13, 2025
Add new Web site: NPS History Electronic Library and Archive - The Forests of Alaska: From Prehistory to Creation Of the Afognak Reserve. Apr 17, 2025
Add new Web site: Council on Foreign Relations - The Alaska Purchase. Jan 24, 2025
Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - Poetry and Alaska: William Henry Seward?s Alaskan Purchase and Bret Harte?s ?An Arctic Vision? Nov 29, 2024
Add new Web site: Alaska Historical Society - The Purchase of Alaska: 1867 or 1971. Oct 18, 2024
Add new Web site: CNN Politics - A look back at the original Alaska Purchase. May 02, 2024
Add new Web site: University of Rochester - News Center - The myth—and memorabilia—of Seward’s Folly. Jan 25, 2024
Links added. Nov 16, 2023
Add new Web site: History Today - The Alaska Purchase. Sep 12, 2023
Add new Web site: National Archives - Check for the purchase of Alaska (1868). May 26, 2023
Add new Web site: History Cooperative - Seward�s Folly: How the US bought Alaska. Feb 16, 2023
Add new Web site: Library of Congress - The Alaska Purchase. Sep 30, 2022
Corrected display issue. Oct 24, 2019
Article thoroughly revised. Aug 31, 2011
Media added. Apr 23, 2009
Media added. Mar 07, 2009
Media added. Mar 07, 2008
Article revised and updated. Oct 03, 2007
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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