President Dwight D. Eisenhower used six pens to sign the statehood proclamation, and more to sign the executive order ...

After reaching Alaska, the duo of Laurence Lombard and Frederick “Pete” Blodgett spent some time in Southeast before ...

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 ...

The oil riches of Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay were very nearly never discovered at all, writes Kathrine Schmidt. After a string of expensive and disappointing dry holes on what is now known as the North ...

Alaska historian and Distinguished Professor Emeritus Stephen Haycox walks through the honor aisle after receiving the Meritorious Service Award during the University of Alaska Anchorage's 2025 Spring ...

In 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed John Weir Troy as Alaska’s sixth territorial governor. Alaskans, in a rare moment of accord, greeted the president’s appointment with a sigh of relief that ...

Christopher Columbus may have sailed the ocean blue in 1492, but some tiny blue beads beat him to it, reaching North America a few decades sooner, to become possibly the earliest European-made objects ...

Angie Schmidt's job is to restore footage from the old Alaskan film reels. When old Alaskan film reels find their way from dusty basements to the Alaska Film Archives in Fairbanks, Angie Schmidt's job ...

The history of reindeer in Alaska is complex. To help me understand I interviewed Nathan Muus, writer, musician, and yoiker. Muus is a Sámi American leader who’s been involved in the Sámi American ...

Cover art from the free downloadable book "Black History in the Last Frontier," published by the University of Alaska Anchorage and the National Park Service. (From NPS) Fairbanks is celebrating Dr.