Alaska In Focus During Trump and Putin Peace Summit
Donald Trump has traveled to Anchorage, Alaska, for a “high‑stakes” summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate a potential ceasefire in Ukraine. The meeting is set to occur at Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson, marking the first face-to-face between the two as sitting presidents since 2019. Trump described the summit as aimed at getting Ukraine to […]
Purchase of Alaska, 1867
The purchase of Alaska in 1867 marked the end of Russian efforts to expand trade and settlements to the Pacific coast of North America, and became an important step in the United States rise as a great power in the Asia-Pacific region. Beginning in 1725, when Russian Czar Peter the Great dispatched Vitus Bering to explore the Alaskan […]
Emperor Huizong, Auspicious Cranes, Handscroll
A flock of twenty cranes fly against a blue sky, while rolling clouds encircle the roof tiles and ornaments of the city gates below. The image records an auspicious event (a sign of good fortune) witnessed over the capital city of Kaifeng in 1112, as indicated by an inscription and poem by Emperor Huizong of […]