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Greenland & Panama blog
William Seward bought Alaska for about two cents an acre and got mockedThe 1867 Alaska purchase was jeered as folly and became one of the best land deals in history. Here is the arithmetic, the critics and the payoff.The Panama Canal From Teddy Roosevelt to the Treaties Fight of 1978The canal is the best lesson in American strategic geography, and the 1978 treaty fight split Republicans for reasons worth understanding.