William Henry Seward and his wife, Frances, shared antislavery convictions, but his career imposed great stress on their ...

SCHENECTADY — Nearly two centuries after he graduated from Union College in 1820, William Henry Seward is having quite a moment. President Abraham Lincoln's secretary of state is the subject of a new ...

An impressive, six-foot tall statue is on it's way to Alaska, but first it made its way through Seward. The reason the $200,000 statute happened to make its way through Seward is because it's a statue ...

AUBURN, N.Y. — The Seward House Museum is a step back in time to the mid-1800s and the Civil War that digs deep into the life of William Henry Seward. “The incredible thing about this house is that ...

HARDYSTON -- When Leah Seward Rogne was growing up in North Dakota, the family often discussed their family tree and their relationship to Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of State, William Henry Seward.

Central New Yorkers who waited patiently to view Abraham Lincoln’s hand-written “Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation” during its one-day visit to Syracuse last month were rewarded with a close-up ...

William Henry Seward promoted and succeeded in getting the United States to purchase Russian claims to and interests in Alaska. To recognize his efforts, statues have been funded by private parties ...

"He was well known to be a connoisseur of brandy," Chabot said. "So that's perfect." Early in the movie, Lincoln, played by Daniel Day-Lewis, tells the first of several jokes. Chabot remarked that ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. First as governor of New York (1839–43) and later as a U.S. senator (1849–61), William H. Seward advocated strongly ...

At a time when public officials are to consider a proper response to the demand for the removal of the statue of William Henry Seward in Juneau, I hope that they will recall not only Secretary ...

Nearly 150 years ago, speaking to the people of Sitka, William Henry Seward predicted that Alaska would one day be a U.S. state. Seward was no longer secretary of state at the time. The “ardent ...

A NEW generation has come upon the stage since William H. Seward, past seventy years old, a battered, exhausted, outworn statesman, died in 1872. Men are yet living who were his junior associates in ...