circa 1950: A typical scene of the Aleutian Islands with a volcanic cone in the background.J. Malcolm Greany/Three Lions/Getty Images Alaska was controversially purchased by the US from Russia in 1867 ...
Alaska was controversially purchased by the US from Russia in 1867. Critics called the transaction "Seward's Folly" after US Secretary of State William Seward. Alaska was officially made the 49th ...