I’m 82...that’s what I always remember learning
Gold, other metals, petroleum, natural gas, coal, fish, no Soviet presence in North America ...
The purchase of Alaska ranks second only to the Louisiana Purchase in order of “most important peaceful US foreign policy actions”.
The way I learned it is history shows that Seward knew what he was doing, and his contemporary detractors were foolish.
Is he even mentioned in today’s school history textbooks? Perhaps a younger FReeper can shed some light on that.