Less than a year ago, Alaskans marked one of the most significant events in our history – the 50th anniversary of passage of the landmark Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA). After decades of ...

Alaska writer and lawyer Pamela Cravez this year published "The Biggest Damned Hat," a colorful judicial history of the Last Frontier. She interviewed more than 50 lawyers who arrived in the state and ...

An Alaskan Dictionary” includes slang and idioms of the time, as well as plenty of terms still familiar to current residents ...

Terrence M. Cole, “Jim Crow in Alaska: The Passage of the Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945,” Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 23 (November 1992), 429-49. 2. Richard Slotkin, Gunfighter Nation: The ...

In his recent book “Black History in the Last Frontier,” University of Alaska Anchorage history professor Ian Hartman sheds light on the contributions Black people have made in Alaska before and after ...

As the Alaska Railroad nears its centennial, taking a look back at the history of the rails gives perspective on how the tracks have connected Alaska's communities for decades. In 1914, President ...

Scholars believe that Alaska's Native peoples descended from nomadic hunters and gatherers who crossed from Siberia to North America over the Bering Land Bridge some 20,000 years ago. Then in 1741 ...