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eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: American Foreign Policy 1890 1914: Turner, Mahan, and Roots of Empire

For Students 11th - 12th
Examines the development of American foreign policy in the latter part of the 1800s, and what Frederick Jackson Turner and Alfred Thayer Mahan did to further American imperialistic interests.
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Primary
US National Archives

Our Documents: Check for the Purchase of Alaska (1868)

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive images of two documents important in Alaska's history: the check written for its 1868 purchase from Russia and the Russian Treaty of Cession (an English transcript is provided), which concluded the deal.