Alaska historian and Distinguished Professor Emeritus Stephen Haycox walks through the honor aisle after receiving the Meritorious Service Award during the University of Alaska Anchorage's 2025 Spring ...
The month of October has been recognized by the U.S. Congress and by several state legislatures as Filipino American History Month, to celebrate the long history of Filipinos in the United States.
Like many Alaskans, I first arrived via the Alaska Marine Highway, in my case more than 34 years ago aboard a ferry from Bellingham. I’ve only traveled the Inside Passage twice and, tied to departure ...
August “Gus” Cohn documented the earliest days of this settler burg in its original form as a railroad boomtown, capturing frequently overlooked contexts and aspects that illuminate what day-to-day ...
In his recent book “Black History in the Last Frontier,” University of Alaska Anchorage history professor Ian Hartman sheds light on the contributions Black people have made in Alaska before and after ...
Putin will lay flowers at the Soviet pilots’ section of Fort Richardson National Cemetery after his Alaska summit with Trump. The graves are tied to the WWII Lend-Lease Program, when U.S. and Soviet ...
The history of reindeer in Alaska is complex. To help me understand I interviewed Nathan Muus, writer, musician, and yoiker. Muus is a Sámi American leader who’s been involved in the Sámi American ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: This page is part of a comprehensive guide to voting rights across the U.S. and in Puerto Rico. After the U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867, a civil government slowly came into ...