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 ...

While the current location of Seward wasn’t the original, the name Seward has been a popular for not only places but also businesses and ships.

With more coastline than all of the other states combined, Alaska has quite the maritime history. And for historians and museum leaders, it’s a challenge to preserve that history. A new federally ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — On the third floor of the Rasmuson Library, just past the periodicals, is Room 334, a little-known office with an important purpose. Brightly lit with a litany of cameras, ...

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 ...

Alaska writer and lawyer Pamela Cravez this year published "The Biggest Damned Hat," a colorful judicial history of the Last Frontier. She interviewed more than 50 lawyers who arrived in the state and ...

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.

Terrence M. Cole, “Jim Crow in Alaska: The Passage of the Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945,” Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 23 (November 1992), 429-49. 2. Richard Slotkin, Gunfighter Nation: The ...

There’s a phrase in the Tlingit culture, haa shagóon, which loosely translates to “our ancestors,” but it means so much more. Our elders teach us haa shagóon is understanding who we were in order to ...

Alaska and mining. The history of our state is closely tied to the history of mineral exploration, discovery, and extraction. While most people may think that the early mining history of Alaska ...