Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Thu, Mar 30 2006
Divide and conquer—or not...
Each day the National Archives web site features Today's Document. The current offering happens to be a Russian copy of the Treaty of Cession on March 30, 1867, which represents the sale of the territory of Alaska to the United States. Note the title Russian America on this old map of the Alaska Territory. Oddly enough, Russia was one of the Union's biggest supporters during the American Civil War. A hundred years later the two countries were in such a state of tension that the threat of nuclear war between us seemed imminent.
World politics is full of whirlwind romances and stoic standoffs. It would be interesting to be alive two hundred years from now, to see what has become of both Russian and US borders and bounties.
posted at: 08:29 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
Each day the National Archives web site features Today's Document. The current offering happens to be a Russian copy of the Treaty of Cession on March 30, 1867, which represents the sale of the territory of Alaska to the United States. Note the title Russian America on this old map of the Alaska Territory. Oddly enough, Russia was one of the Union's biggest supporters during the American Civil War. A hundred years later the two countries were in such a state of tension that the threat of nuclear war between us seemed imminent.
World politics is full of whirlwind romances and stoic standoffs. It would be interesting to be alive two hundred years from now, to see what has become of both Russian and US borders and bounties.
posted at: 08:29 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
