Mounties marching in Juneau, Alaska.  Alaska might have been Canadian if Seward hadn't acted. Did we get our money's worth when we bought Alaska from the Russians? It only cost $7.2 million in 1867, but David Barker wonders if the U.S. taxpayers...

Elizabeth Bluemink reports: Alaskan Gold production highest since 1916 (Anchorage Daily News,  November 8, 2009).    Fort Knox mine.  Source: Kinross Gold Corporation. In  summary: Alaska produced about 800,000 ounces of gold in 2008 - the...

The cost of living differential between urban and rural Alaska has increased since 1985 - an important reason is the introduction of "big box stores" in urban Alaska.  Pat Forgery has a nice piece in today's Alaska Empire summarizing testimony to...

Eric Crampton's elegant post on the origins of Inuit print-making at Cape Dorset in Canada: 50 years of Cape Dorset prints .  His theme is the impetus cross-cultural contact can give to creativity.  There are useful links to a newspaper story on...