Category: News

Fri, January 06, 2017

Speakers on History of Alaska and the Law, Mountain View

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: ... (Read More)

Thu, December 08, 2016

Book Release

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... (Read More)

Mon, November 07, 2016

New Book by John Cloe

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... (Read More)

Mon, November 07, 2016

150 Reasons We Love Alaska

Alaskans are invited to contribute a brief essay (150 words or less) to “150 Reasons We Love Alaska,” a publication to be distributed in early 2017 during Alaska’s sesquicentennial year. Alaska Dispatch News in Anchorage will publish and distribute a booklet that will include all the contributions. Each contribution may be edited and then published with the author's permission. Also, if a photo and caption tells the story, send that. Your thoughts about Alaska music, art, books, science, food, relationships, adventures are welcomed; whatever... (Read More)

Mon, November 07, 2016

Alaska Sesquicentennial Commemorative Exhibit

The art exhibition titled “Voices of Change: Perspectives on the Transfer of Alaska from Russia to the United States”is jointly curated by Sitka National Historical Park and the University of Alaska Museum of the North. The pieces in the exhibit are the result of an open call for artists to express their feelings, thoughts, and responses to the Alaska Purchase, or “Treaty of Cession,” and the subsequent 150 years of American governance as it has impacted Alaska Native peoples.... (Read More)