Seward's Folly, enabled by a single piece of paper exchanged for $7.2 million, adding vast new territories to the US, and telling us about how money moves, and how people feel about how that's changing (researched/produced/co-written by Andrew Kyrios)

25. Alaska Purchase Check, 1868

A look at documents that have had a profound effect on the world.  Telling the stories 
of these information objects, their genesis, contexts, impacts, and fates also tells the story of human society 
and its never ending evolution.

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A look at documents that have had a profound effect on the world. Telling the stories of these information objects, their genesis, contexts, impacts, and fates also tells the story of human society and its never ending evolution.

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25. Alaska Purchase Check, 1868

25. Alaska Purchase Check, 1868