Fri, January 06, 2017
In 2017, Tundra Vision is once again hosting "Thursday Nights in Mountain View" a participatory history series that takes place on the fourth Thursday of each month at the Mountain View Branch Library in Anchorage, Alaska. The theme of this year's lectures is Alaska and the Law. Each night features a different speaker, and invites history enthusiasts to muse upon how Alaskans used our commonalities as well as our differences to build a system of justice on the Last Frontier. Time: Public Engagement Session with Refreshments: 6:00pm Speaker Presentation: 6:30pm to 7:30pm Place: ...
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Thu, December 08, 2016
University of Alaska Press announces the release of Sewards' Folly: A New Look at the Alaska Purchase By Lee A. Farrow Available December 2016 Paper Price: $25.95 About the Book: The Alaska Purchase—denounced at the time as “Seward’s Folly” but now seen as a masterstroke—is well known as a key moment in American history. But few know the whole story. This book aims to correct that. Lee A. Farrow offers here a detailed account of just what the Alaska...
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Sun, December 04, 2016
[caption id="attachment_4763" align="aligncenter" width="585"] Glacier Bay Seafoods in Ouzinkie, Alaska, in the early 1970s, with a Kodiak Air Grumman Goose mail plane heading to the village beach. Photo by Tim Smith.[/caption] By: Susan Morgan We were never supposed to live in Ouzinkie. That revelation from my mom blew my mind. We had never been one of those families that had meetings to discuss things, but I always assumed at least my mom knew what was happening. As it turns out,...
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Tue, November 29, 2016
[embed]https://vimeo.com/194408286?utm_source=email&utm_medium=vimeo-cliptranscode-201504&utm_campaign=29220[/embed] By: Katie Ringsmuth, PhD One of the most important 20th century industries on the West Coast was the canning of Pacific salmon. In its heyday the industry caught and canned enough salmon to feed four pounds of salmon a year to every man woman and child in America. Lined up end to end, these one pound tins could have circled the globe. As anthropologist Alan Boraas notes, “Canneries transformed this entire area and represent the industrial revolution of the...
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Mon, November 07, 2016
Anchorage historian John Haile Cloe's latest book, "Mission to the Kurils" has just been released (Todd Communications, $40). [caption id="attachment_4742" align="alignright" width="300"] A B-25J from the Aleutians approaches Japanese targets in the Kuril Islands. (Army Air Force, 613ABW Hist. Office.)[/caption] The book is the first history written of the United States' battle where American bombers spent two yeas after the Battle of Attu raiding Japanese strongholds in the chain of Kuril Islands. It remains largely unstudied and unrecognized, even by World War II buffs. For a...
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