Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of ...

Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — On the third floor of the Rasmuson Library, just past the periodicals, is Room 334, a little-known office with an important purpose. Brightly lit with a litany of cameras, ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — President Warren G. Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska Railroad more than a century ago, a ceremonial act that marked the launch of a system to ...

Alaska is famous for its vast and rugged natural beauty. It is also notorious for having the highest murder rates in the country. “A person is more likely to be murdered in Alaska than any other state ...