Alaska joined the union as the 50th state on Jan. 3, 1959, while Oct. 18 remains a celebrated date in state history ... reenactment of the changing of the flag on Castle Hill, once home to ...
The Navy officially apologized to the Tlingit community for a bombardment that wiped out an Alaskan village in 1882.
Nuestra Huella features photographs, community stories, historical research, artworks and cultural belongings from museum ...
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, OCTOBER 17 ... in Sitka and the raising of the American flag. October 18 is celebrated each year in ...
In the race for president of the United States, Alaska has historically been a red state for decades.But some national ...
In recent years, though, the ceremonial hilltop raising of the American flag in Sitka every Alaska Day ... So many powerful forces of history converging on the outer coast of Baranof Island ...
Homer High School’s history teacher Lucas Parsely’s students in his Alaska History course have just completed the final steps in cataloguing a collection of items from northern Alaska they hope to ...
(Chris Bieri / ADN) WASILLA — The North Pole flag football team wrote itself into the Alaska sports history book on Saturday. With a 27-6 win over Service, the Patriots became the first Alaska ...
Brian Fuchs, a climatologist with the National Drought Mitigation Center, told Newsweek that the last time drought to this ...
The United States made the deal of the centuries — securing the vast Alaska territory from Russia for $7.2 million — on this day in history ... of the Russian flag on Castle Hill in Sitka ...