Category: 49 History

Thu, March 28, 2024

Anchorage Genealogical Society Spring Seminar

The Anchorage Genealogical Society is delighted to hold their annual SpringSeminar on May 4th. The speakers will be Alison and Tom Taylor who own Pictures& Stories and are coming from Utah. The seminar will be held at the LoussacEvent Center from 9 am to 4:30 pm. Sessions will include how to tell the beststories of your life, making a family story cookbook, organizing your family history,and advice on digitizing photos. The Taylors are in demand all over the country.Come join... (Read More)

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Sun, March 17, 2024

2024 AHS Conference Call for Papers & More

The Alaska Historical Society Invites You to Join Us in Cordova AHS call for papers - Cordova 2024Download Located near the mouth of the Copper River, Cordova was a crossroads of trade and interaction among Eyak, Tlingit, Ahtna and Chugach peoples when Europeans sailed into Prince William Sound in the 1700s. Founded in 1909 as a railway terminus to deliver copper from the Kennecott Mines, Cordova also was near Katalla, Alaska’s earliest oil field. Fishing is the town’s major industry... (Read More)

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Thu, October 12, 2023

Alaska Historical Society Recognizes Alaskans for Historic Accomplishment

Ian Hartman and David Reamer Honored as Historians of the Year Two prominent Anchorage historians who wrote the ground-breaking book, Black Lives in Alaska: A History of African Americans in the Far Northwest, were named historians of the year by the Alaska Historical Society over the weekend at its annual conference on the Kenai Peninsula. University of Alaska Anchorage history professor Ian C. Hartman and public historian and Anchorage Daily News columnist David Reamer were awarded the James H. Ducker... (Read More)

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Fri, February 17, 2023

Alaska History Day is Coming up in April

Alaska History Day is coming up in April – please consider volunteering a few hours of your time as a judge! What is Alaska History Day? It is the Alaska statewide contest for National History Day. NHD is a year-long academic program focused on historical research, interpretation and creative expression for 6th- to 12th-grade students. By participating in NHD, students become writers, filmmakers, web designers, playwrights and artists as they create unique contemporary expressions of history. When is it? Judging... (Read More)

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Mon, March 15, 2021

Eyewitness Booklet Series

Chris Allan has compiled five booklets of what he calls the “Eyewitness Series.”  They are being made available on the Alaska Historical Society’s website. Chris’s intent with the first four booklets is to showcase voices of the past: “I wanted to get away from the traditional historian’s narrative form where primary sources play a secondary or tertiary role behind the historian’s voice and analysis. I like the idea of people hearing history from the eyewitnesses. In each case, I was... (Read More)

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