Category: News

Sun, January 17, 2021

Lecture: Sinking of the Good Ship DORA

The 100th Anniversary Lecture: Sinking of the Good Ship DORA By J. Pennelope Goforth Cook Inlet Historical Society, 2020-2021 Speaker Series, “Disasters” Thursday January 21, 2021 7:00PM Join us online for a free virtual CIHS lecture. Advance registration is required to receive the link. Please register directly on the Anchorage Museum website: https://www.anchoragemuseum.org/visit/calendar/details/?id=64069 The staunch little steamer Dora served in Alaskan waters her entire career: delivering the mail, transporting food and goods from Southeast Alaskan ports all the way to Bristol... (Read More)

Sun, January 10, 2021

Elizabeth Peratrovich Google Doodle

On December 30, 2020, Alaska's own Elizabeth Peratrovich was the featured image in the Google logo. According to Google: The Doodle, illustrated by Sitka, Alaska-based guest artist Michaela Goade, celebrates Alaska Native civil rights champion Elizabeth Peratrovich, who played an instrumental role in the 1945 passage of the first anti-discrimination law in the United States. On this day in 1941, after encountering an inn door sign that read “No Natives Allowed,” Peratrovich and her husband–both of Alaska’s Indigenous Tlingit tribe–helped... (Read More)

Sun, January 10, 2021

UAF Course: North American Energy History

The History Department at the University of Alaska Fairbanks is pleased to announce a new course titled North American Energy History being taught this Spring 2021 semester by Dr. Philip Wight. They are looking for students to join the course in these last final days of class registration before the new semester starts. North American Energy History is an upper-level history course that examines how energy resources, regimes, and transitions have fueled human history. Over the course of millennia, humans... (Read More)

Mon, October 19, 2020

Article on Seattle National Archives

The Journal of Western Archives is pleased to announce the publication of a new article: "Will the Last Archivist in Seattle Please Turn Out the Lights: Value and the National Archives." Authors Sarah Buchanan and Megan Llewellyn from the University of Missouri discuss the decision to close the Seattle branch of the National Archives earlier this year. We hope that you find it interesting. The article can be accessed at digitalcommons.usu.edu/westernarchives/vol11/iss1/7.

Mon, October 19, 2020

Denali Park Road History

The Year Everything Changed: The 1972 Shuttle Bus Decision in Mount McKinley National Park. Tourism numbers at Denali National Park dropped this last summer due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The park projected between 50-60 thousand visitors. The last time Denali had so few tourists the park had a different name, private automobiles could still drive the length of the road, and Richard Nixon was President—it was the early 1970s. It was an era of big change in Denali. Read more... (Read More)