History Articles

Military airplanes on runway with wings folded up, Dutch Harbor, Alaska, circa 1944. ASL-P338-0420, H. Marion Thornton Photograph Collection, Alaska State Library-Historical Collections.
Short accounts written by Alaskan historians about a few topics that reflect Alaska’s varied history. Go to the Alaska Historical Society’s 49 History blog to see more recent and varied essays about Alaskan historical topics.
Select a link from below to read stories.
- 1916 Top of the World Highway Drive
- 1923 Predator Control Program
- Alaska Film Making
- Baseball Broadcast with Imagination
- Baseball is Fun in Seward, 1912
- Christmas on the Klondike Trail, 1898
- Fairbanks’ Most Thankful Thanksgiving
- High Life Adventure: Driving a Beer Truck to Alaska, 1952
- The Birdman of Alcatraz in Alaska
- Tourism in Alaska’s Past
- Truckers Beat Feds in the Great Richardson Highway Toll War
- Gold Rush Bicycling
- Keeping Time in Alaska: National Directives, Local Response
- Skiing in Fairbanks, 1937
- WWII Comes to Kodiak: The Nichols Family Experience
- The Cold War Years 1946-1991