Category: 49 History

Thu, February 14, 2013

Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Litigation Records Appraisal and Processing Project

This announcement provided by the Alaska State Archives. The website is available at:http://www.archives.state.ak.us/valdezProject.htmlThe Exxon Valdez oil spill was a decisive event in world history. It permanently changed the lives of those who live in Alaska; especially people in the spill region. Lawsuits between the State of Alaska, the United States government and Exxon and Alyeska Corporations and other defendants lasted five years. All state and federal cases were eventually combined as a federal case presided over by Judge J. Russell... (Read More)

Wed, February 06, 2013

Interview with Lissa Wadewitz, author of “The Nature of Borders”

The Nature of Borders: Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits On the Salish Sea is Lissa K. Wadewitz’s new book about how humans have conceptualized ocean and freshwater boundaries in the transnational context of the Pacific Northwest. The book is published by University of Washington Press. Wadewitz is an assistant professor of history at Linfield College in Oregon. The following interview was conducted by email.Your book deals with the concept of "borders" on multiple levels (e.g., indigenous, maritime, international). Tell us what... (Read More)

Tue, January 22, 2013

Alaska Mental Health Trust History Project Jukebox

By Karen Brewster The recently completed Alaska Mental Health Trust History Project Jukebox is now available online at:http://jukebox.uaf.edu/mentalhealthA project of the Oral History Program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority, the site features interviews with twenty-nine individuals talking about the history of mental health services in Alaska.Topics include Morningside Hospital in Oregon, the legal battle and settlement over the management of the state’s mental health trust program, changes in the delivery of mental... (Read More)

Thu, January 17, 2013

The Chief Shakes Tribal House as a Historic Monument in Alaska

By Zach Jones The June 1940 Chief Shakes Tribal House dedicationceremony, courtesy Sealaska Heritage Institute.With a light rain falling on the gathered dignitaries, federal officials, and general Alaskans at Wrangell, Alaska, a ceremony marked the rededication of the historic Chief Shakes Tribal House. The tribal house, a Tlingit Indian clan house of the Naanyaa.aayí Clan, had recently been restored as a historic monument as part of a Depression-era New Deal works relief program. Carried out by Juneau-based professional architect Linn... (Read More)

Sun, January 13, 2013

First USN Ship in Alaskan Waters on Humanitarian Mission

The USS DELAWARE, sister ship of the COOPER.By Pennelope GoforthThe U.S. Navy has long and wide wake in the state’s history and is about to make history again with the commissioning of its newest warship in Alaskan waters. Next May the newest naval transport vessel, LPD-23, will steam north to Alaska where she will be officially commissioned as the USS ANCHORAGE. She will be the second Navy ship to bear the name of Alaska’s largest city and home of the... (Read More)