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The First Europeans
(2 pages)
Some written accounts claim that the first Europeans to establish a settlement in Alaska were two Russian explorers -- Semyon Dezhnev and Fedot Alekseev.
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Illustrated Alaska Timeline
Follow the history of Alaska from the 1700s to 2006 through images from the Alaska Digital Archives.
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Russian America
(2 pages)
Eager Russian fur traders wasted no time after learning of the superb furs awaiting them in the newfound region.
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Alaska Purchase
(2 pages)
The name Alaska most likely came from the Aleut word Alyeska, meaning the great land.
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Alaska Transfer Ceremony
October 18, 1867, was one of the most significant days in Alaska history, the day when the United States officially took possession of its northernmost territory.
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America's New Land
(2 pages)
The people who lived in the newly-formed Department of Alaska petitioned the federal government for their promised rights of citizenship for decades, to no avail.
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Project Chariot
In 1958, the Atomic Energy Commission under physicist Edward Teller proposed using a nuclear detonation to create a deep-water harbor in northwest Alaska.
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A Forward-Thinking People: Contemporary Alaska
(2 pages)
The state's most recent boom arrived in 1968 with the discovery of a massive oil reservoir at Prudhoe Bay.
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