The possibility of the United States acquiring Greenland has been kicking around Washington for so long that William Seward had the State Department commission a report on the topic (as well as ...

Two years after Secretary of State William Seward had brokered the purchase of Alaska from Russia, U.S. leaders suspected the British trading post at Fort Yukon might be located on American soil ...

Notable people buried at Fort Hill Cemetery include Harriet Tubman, William Seward, Myles Keogh and Martha Coffin Wright. Former slave and leader of the Underground Railroad, Tubman freed ...

AUBURN — A sculpture of William Seward — famous Auburn resident and secretary of state under President Abraham Lincoln — was unveiled in Auburn May 13 in honor of Seward's ...