Perhaps like many viewers, you exited Steven Spielberg's hit movie Lincoln wanting to know more — more about the Civil War, more about the 16th president, more about Secretary of State William ...

The Lincoln movie was based in large part on a book researched at Seward House, Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals." Strathairn learned about Seward House after an invitation Chabot extended ...

This November, William H. Seward will come to life. The renowned Auburn resident and secretary of state to Abraham Lincoln plays a key role in Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln," which depicts the 16th ...

William Seward is known to most people as the architect of “Seward’s folly,” the acquisition of Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million in 1867. The stinging name has stuck, though energy-rich ...

In "Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man," Walter Stahr examines the colorful career of William Henry Seward, the man who made Thanksgiving a national holiday, bought Alaska for the United States ...

Steve Haycox: Alaskans have reason to remember William Seward as more than Lincoln's political fixer.

Officials from the city, county, Seward House and other organizations have already met multiple times to discuss the possibilities that may come from a future movie about Abraham Lincoln.

David Strathair n has been cast in Steven Spielberg ’s Lincoln. Strathairn will play William Seward, who served as Lincoln’s Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869.

Secretary of State William Seward (1801-1872) Library of Congress Powell set upon Seward with a dagger, striking him in the neck and the breast.

How important a role did William Seward play in winning the Civil War and saving the Union? According to Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, an extremely important one.

At the same time Booth sent George Atzerodt to assassinate Vice President Johnson and Lewis Powell (also known as Paine) to assassinate Secretary of State William H. Seward.