Category: News

Fri, December 20, 2019

Wyoming First to Celebrate Women’s Suffrage

With the upcoming 100th anniversary of women earning the right to vote in the United States, it is interesting to note that on December 10, 1869, the Wyoming territory became the first in the nation to guarantee women unconditional suffrage including the right to vote, hold public office and serve on a jury – 50 years before the 19th Amendment allowed the same rights throughout the United States. On December 10, 2019, the state of Wyoming celebrated this 150th anniversary... (Read More)

Fri, November 08, 2019

William Mills Prize for Non-Fiction Polar Books

Do you have a favorite book about the northern or southern polar regions? Why not nominate it for the William Mills Prize for Non-Fiction Polar Books? The book must have been published between January 2018 and December 2019, and the nomination deadline is March 31, 2020. The book prize honors the best Arctic or Antarctic nonfiction books published throughout the world. The prize consists of $500 US, certificates for the author and publisher, and the right to use the William... (Read More)

Sat, November 02, 2019

Suffragists Project Jukebox

In recognition of the upcoming 100th anniversary of the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave women of the United States the right to vote, the Oral History Program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has updated the: Recovering Our Past, The Struggle for Women's Suffrage Project Jukebox This Project Jukebox contains a slideshow of images with audio excerpted from oral history interviews conducted in the 1970s with women who were directly involved with the original struggle for women's... (Read More)

Sat, November 02, 2019

ANCSA Presentation by Emil Notti

Reflections on the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act with Emil Notti Wednesday, November 20th, 5:30 - 6:30 pm Lecture Hall at The Father Andrew P. Kashevaroff Building, 395 Whittier Street, Juneau, Alaska Dr. Emil Notti was the first Alaska Federation of Natives president who cast the tie-breaking vote to allow the Sealaska region into Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA), the 1971 legislation that authorized Alaska Natives to select and receive title to 44 million acres of public land in... (Read More)

Mon, January 21, 2019

Unlocking McNeil’s Past: The Prison, The Place, The People

In 2019, the Washington State Historical Society in Tacoma hosted the exhibit Unlocking McNeil’s Past: The Prison, The Place, The People. McNeil Island is where many Alaskans were incarcerated during territorial days. The exhibition presented the larger history of McNeil Island as a place, and the prison that opened there 143 years ago. The prison operated far longer than the better-known Alcatraz island prison. When the state’s correctional center on McNeil Island closed in 2011, it was the last prison... (Read More)