Historians, in nearly everything we write, are supposed to have an argument. By that I mean our written accounts of past events should not merely describe what happened but also feature some sort of analysis in order to situate those events in a larger historical context. What social forces existed in San Francisco in the […]
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A Message from Don Rearden, 49 Writers Board President It’s hard for me to believe that five years ago I sat across from Andromeda Romano-Lax and Deb Vanasse at a Kaladi Brothers table, sipping a mocha, listening to them pitch to me their shared vision for a statewide writing organization. Already over my head with
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Having done research in half a dozen National Archives facilities around the country, I’ve been following closely the news about NARA’s Anchorage branch. I also appreciated Peter Porco’s June 9 posting on this blog in which he laments the closure of that facility and the transfer of its Alaska records to Seattle (informally known as
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Please join me in thanking Cinthia Ritchie for taking over the weekly roundup duties while Ela Harrison Gordon is on hiatus – we greatly appreciate her offer to help out. It seems appropriate, therefore, to start off by congratulating Cinthia on her 2012 Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award! Cinthia is one of four artists who
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Ross Coen, a writer/historian in Fairbanks, first published this tribute in The Ester Republic. We’ll also be airing a documentary in tribute to John Haines as part of our Synergies/Still North “Land Beyond Landscape” event this Saturday, April 16, at 7 p.m. at the MTS Gallery, 3142 Mountain View Dr. Sixteen years ago John Haines
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