Explore how the richest families in American history built stunning Hudson Valley and Upstate NY mansions that remain ...

Perhaps the trial’s most lasting legacy is the precedent it set for how we engage with our ideological enemies and the role ...

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 ...

The 16th president, played by Daniel Day-Lewis in Spielberg's new film, is written about most Walter Stahr gives attention to Lincoln's confidant and secretary of State, William Henry Seward ...

Asked whether he had any last words, William Henry Seward gave this as his answer. His legacy included surviving a knife attack on the same night Lincoln was shot and defending the controversial ...

Adam Gopnik reviews “Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War,” by Michael Vorenberg, and “1861: The Lost Peace,” by Jay Winik.

Yet instead of promoting Canada’s annexation, President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William Henry Seward undercut the Fenian raids by seizing their weapons, reinforcing U.S. neutrality, and ...

The acquisition of what would become the US Virgin Islands was the brainchild of Secretary of State William Henry Seward, a move seen by the US State Department as admirably benign.

Although Shakespeare was a favorite of Lincoln’s, the president took the phrase from another politician, William Henry Seward.

Snow falls on the Alaska Capitol and the statue of William Henry Seward on Monday, April 1, 2024. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon) Last year, when Gov. Mike Dunleavy proposed legislation last ...