We’ve been very grateful to have time loaned to us by the Library’s Access Services department. Many days over the past several months, we have had a few hours of their staff time and they’ve …
We’ve been on hiatus with our archives-themed cooking events for a few years, but it looks like it might just be time to bring it back to life. You might recall the Chilkoot Challenge in which we took the grocery …
Donald Mitchell oral histories recordings and transcriptions digitized and placed online in the Alaska’s Digital Archives: Joe and Carolyn Begich, Frank Bracken, Maurice Carmody, Roy Peratrovich, Hugh Gallagher, 2 interviews with Emil Notti, and 2 …
In our ongoing series of questions asked by History students at UAA:
Another from the set of questions we received from students in a UAA History class.
Last week we received some great questions from some History majors here at UAA about what we do. Gwen spent a lot of time answering them (and then Arlene spent time making Gwen’s answers even longer) and we thought they …
Laurie Arnold and Miki‘ala Ayau Pescaia published “Considering the Revolution: Indigenous Histories and Memory in Alaska, Hawai‘i, and the Indigenous Plateau” in the November 2021 issue of The Public Historian. The article included this image from the …
The Anchorage Daily News used some our Anchorage Organizing Committee records in their ongoing series Curious Alaska: this entry about past attempts to bring the Olympics to Anchorage. Gwen appears in a few of the photographs.…
In mid-September, Arlene sat down virtually with three of the curators from the Ketchikan Museums: Hayley Chambers, Erika Christian, and Ryan McHale. In part two of this podcast, we focus in on their oral history program. They talk about how …
In mid-September, Arlene sat down virtually with three of the curators: Hayley Chambers, Erika Christian, and Ryan McHale, from the Ketchikan Museums. In part one of this podcast, we talk about their missions and collections, how archival collections fit into …
