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...Museums has named Dean Dawson of Juneau as Alaska State archivist. Dawson, a 26-year state employee, began his new position July 1. He previously served as the acting state archivist for 8 months. Dawson was the first responder to the flood...
At this week's Sound and Motion presentation at UAS, archivist Damon Stuebner will host the fourth annual collection of vintage and historic films from the Alaska State Archives and Library...
...Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska is getting under way at a warehouse in Fairbanks. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports that archivist Mary Anne Hamblen is beginning her search through more than 4,700 boxes of documents gathered from Stevens' 40-year Senate...
...internship program to encourage more Native archivists and museum curators. SHI archivist said that more Natives are needed in these...museums," said Sealaska Heritage Institute archivist Zachary Jones. Jones said having Tlingit...
...Staff will appraise 3,300 boxes of records and process 400-600 boxes determined to have permanent historical value. State Archivist Dean Dawson said the project will begin in October. For more projects the commission is funding see: www.archives.gov...
...for the Alaska State Archives is in the process of being averted, in part due to a remarkable stroke of luck that helped archivists deal with a flood of water dousing historical records. While some documents have been damaged, everything has been salvaged...
A broken water main at the State Archives Building doused several boxes of records Thursday morning, but Archivist Dean Dawson said the items were able to be dried without suffering permanent damage. "It just does really ram home the need for...
...has appointed Gladi Kulp of Juneau to serve on the State Historical Records Advisory Board. A former acting Alaska state archivist, Kulp is a member of the Alaska Historical Society, the Alaska Native Advisory Board and the Alaska Digital Archived Project...
"It was called the "Kake War" of 1869 but few people today know of it, said Zachary Jones, archivist with the Sealaska Heritage Institute. Among those who are aware of it are the Keex' Kwaan Tlingit of the Kake area, as well...
...this week, with "Un-silencing the Past: Reassessing American Military Relations with the Tlingit in 1869." Led by SHI Archivist Zachary Jones, also an adjunct instructor of history at UAS, the lecture will focus on American military relations with...