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Robert J. Walker

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The Shifting Symbolism of the Gadsden Flag

How do we decide what the “Don’t Tread on Me” flag, or indeed any symbol, really means?

by Robert J. Walker via The New Yorker
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on October 2, 2016

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The signing of the Alaska Purchase Agreement on March 30, 1867.

Russia’s First Secret Influence Campaign: Convincing the U.S. to Buy Alaska

Russia has been peddling influence for a long time, using a playbook that it still uses today.

by Casey Michel via Politico Magazine on September 8, 2024

The arctic landscape.

Dr. Freezelove

Who owns the Arctic?

by Laleh Khalili via London Review of Books on May 1, 2026

Signing the Alaska Treaty of Cessation, L. to R. Robert S. Chew, Secretary of State (USA) William H. Seward, William Hunter, Mr. Bodisco, Russian Ambassador Baron de Stoeckl, Charles Sumner, Fredrick W. Seward, William H. Seward House, Auburn, New York

America's First Bid for Greenland

William Seward's 1868 attempt to acquire the Danish territory was the country's first, but not the last.

by Mark Kawar via American Heritage on April 28, 2026

Afghan children standing in rubble

Invading Other Countries to ‘Help’ People Has Long Had Devastating Consequences

For more than a century, U.S. wars of invasion have claimed a humanitarian mantle.

by Joel Zapata via Made By History on September 10, 2021

An engraving of a boat in the water.

"Interior" by Design

Despite the Interior Department’s name, the agency has played a key role in the construction of American foreign policy and territorial expansion.

by Sam Ratner, Megan Black via Fellow Travelers on March 28, 2019

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