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 ...

Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of ...

There used to be hundreds of seafood canneries all along Alaska’s coastline. Two people are involved in documenting and preserving some of that rich history in order to share it with others. Anjuli ...

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 ...

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 ...

Located on the campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, this museum is the state's only research and teaching museum. Housing more than 1.4 million artifacts and specimens, the collections ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LYNN CANAL, Alaska -- The S.S. Legacy is sailing near the Gold Rush town of Skagway when Danny McSwain swaggers into the Grand Salon. Dressed like an 1890s scofflaw, with a six-shooter on his waist, ...