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Section 1. Purpose. On August 7, 1789, 236 years ago, President George Washington signed into law a bill establishing the United States Department of War to oversee the operation and maintenance of ...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday to rebrand the Pentagon as the “Department of War,” telling reporters in the Oval Office it was a more “appropriate” name given the state of the ...
On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. With a stroke of a pen, Czar Alexander II had ceded Alaska, his ...
A few of Alaska's residents take in the view ahead of Putin's visit to the state to meet his American counterpart. Piriya Photography/Moment via Getty Images On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) William L. Iggiagruk Hensley, University of Alaska Anchorage (THE CONVERSATION) On Aug ...