Despite being born into a wealthy family of enslavers in the southern United States, Cassius Marcellus Clay rose to become one of the country’s leading slavery abolitionists. Popularly known as...
Even though he never served as president, William H. Seward is among one of America’s most accomplished figures in politics. After Abraham Lincoln was elected 16th President of the United...
March 30, 1867, marked the day in history when the Treaty of Cession was finalized by William H. Seward, the then-U.S. Secretary of State, and Baron Edouard de Stoeckl, a...
