Alaska frontier food has always blended practicality and indigenous tradition, combining influences from Inuit populations, Russian fur trappers, Yukon gold prospectors, and other groups who have ...

From 1951 to 1959, the FBI and Air Force ran Operation Washtub, a covert program that trained bush pilots, trappers, hunters and miners to operate as covert agents if Soviet paratroopers ever landed ...

Racial categories, which have been on every U.S. census, have changed from decade to decade, reflecting the politics and science of the times.

As world leaders head for Brazil to focus on climate change, it is time for realism, pragmatism – and maybe even a little ...

Ciara Farrell, a Kennel Club Historian, tells Country Living: "Dog ‘breeds’, as we know them today, are a fairly modern ...

The First Alaskans Institute’s annual gala awards rarely get much attention outside of the black-tie fundraiser where they’re ...

The remnants of Typhoon Halong scattered artifacts from an archaeological site along the shore of the Bering Sea.

As Typhoon Halong swept through western Alaska, it laid bare how centuries-old policies made Native villages particularly ...

On March 21, 2025, after an 18-month journey, about 400 people gathered at Sheet’ká Kwáan Naa Kahídi — the community tribal house in Sitka — and watched Tlingit singers and dancers perform followed ...

In July 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered a landmark advisory opinion on the obligations of states in ...

Bt Becky Bohrer  Winds and storm surge may have washed away thousands of unearthed artifacts A fragment of a mask that was preserved for hundreds of years in permafrost sat in the muck of a low tide ...

How the U.S. government measures race has changed substantially since censuses began in 1790. Today, Americans differ on whether the government should ask about race.