Category: News

Mon, March 15, 2021

Newspaper Research Guide

As of March 2021, a great new resource is now available in the AHS website's For Researchers Section. Chris Allan, a historian with the National Park Service who is well known for his extensive use of historic newspapers to research innovative subjects, has prepared a guide called “The Newspaper Bonanza: How to Discover Alaska’s Past in Newspaper Databases.” With this guide, Chris hopes to stimulate others to undertake new investigations in the world of newspaper storytelling.

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)

Sun, January 17, 2021

Eyes on the Past: Saving Alaska’s History

The Alaska Film Archives has kicked off the new semester by posting a throwback YouTube video in honor of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives at Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. The 15-minute video "Eyes on the Past: Saving Alaska's History" celebrates UAF's archival collections by highlighting the Alaska Steamship Company Collection, consisting of the company's business records, publications, books and photographs. *Eyes on the Past: Saving Alaska's History* ... (Read More)

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 https://www.cookinlethistoricalsociety.org/lecture-series/the-sinking-of-the-good-ship-dora 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 Bay and rescuing hundreds lost at sea. Sold into the cod fishery she made her last voyage to Alaska with a green crew when tragedy... (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)