The kerfuffle surrounding Alaska’s U.S. Senate race this year isn’t the first time two candidates named Dan Sullivan were ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the state's official historian, Katie Ringsmuth was tasked by the governor to oversee part of Alaska's celebration for the America250 campaign. She thought to herself, what better way to begin ...

As the Alaska Railroad nears its centennial, taking a look back at the history of the rails gives perspective on how the tracks have connected Alaska's communities for decades. In 1914, President ...

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 ...

Scholars believe that Alaska's Native peoples descended from nomadic hunters and gatherers who crossed from Siberia to North America over the Bering Land Bridge some 20,000 years ago. Then in 1741 ...

Joshua Albeza Branstetter, Tasha Elizarde and Shayne Nuesca at Alaska Public Media on Friday, Oct. 27, 2023. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) October is Filipino American History month, ...

Governor Egan signing the Human Rights Act. Identified are left to right Sen. Mike Gravel, Dick Hedberg-AFL-CIO, Maria G. Bowman and Willard Bowman-NAACP. (Courtesy of the William A. Egan Papers, ...