Like many Alaskans, I first arrived via the Alaska Marine Highway, in my case more than 34 years ago aboard a ferry from Bellingham. I’ve only traveled the Inside Passage twice and, tied to departure ...

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

There used to be hundreds of seafood canneries all along Alaska’s coastline. Two people are involved in documenting and preserving some of that rich history in order to share it with others. Anjuli ...

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 ...

With more coastline than all of the other states combined, Alaska has quite the maritime history. And for historians and museum leaders, it’s a challenge to preserve that history. A new federally ...

There’s a phrase in the Tlingit culture, haa shagóon, which loosely translates to “our ancestors,” but it means so much more. Our elders teach us haa shagóon is understanding who we were in order to ...

Alaska and mining. The history of our state is closely tied to the history of mineral exploration, discovery, and extraction. While most people may think that the early mining history of Alaska ...

Located on the campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, this museum is the state's only research and teaching museum. Housing more than 1.4 million artifacts and specimens, the collections ...

Jimmy Carter will be forever linked to the fabric of Alaska, a character in the story of the 49th State. Carter, president of ...

LYNN CANAL, Alaska -- The S.S. Legacy is sailing near the Gold Rush town of Skagway when Danny McSwain swaggers into the Grand Salon. Dressed like an 1890s scofflaw, with a six-shooter on his waist, ...