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  University Libraries Digital Initiative Program http://content.lib.washington.edu/
Image collections of the University of Washington Libraries Digital Initiatives Program on the topic of the history, natural sciences, and regional cultures of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
  Alaska State Museums http://www.museums.state.ak.us/
Juneau and link to Sheldon Jackson Museum in Sitka. History, ethnology, publications, and grant information.
  Stories from the Gold Rush http://postalmuseum.si.edu/gold/gold2.html
Includes tales of extraordinary women, trails to the gold fields, pictures of tent cities, effects of starvation and disease, literature of the period, and links to Jack London and Robert Service.
  Alaska Historical Society http://www.alaskahistoricalsociety.org
The official site of the Alaska Historical Society, home to information about Alaska history and local historical societies throughout the state.
  Alaska Historical Societies http://www.daddezio.com/society/hill/SH-AK-NDX.html
Locate address information (including web site links) to historical societies in each borough within the state of Alaska.
  ThinkQuest - Women in Alaska's History http://library.thinkquest.org/11313/
Historical information combined with "fun learning activities" compiled by high school students.
  Alcan Highway http://www.visi.com/~alcan/
Construction history of the Alaska-Canada road from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, to Fairbanks including vintage photographs.
  Arktika - Aviation History in Canada http://www.cobrasoverthetundra.com/
A bi-lingual book in English and Russian about the Lend-Lease flights through Western Canada and Alaska during World War 2. Book title, "Cobras Over The Tundra."
  Russian America http://www.cosmicelk.net/RussianAmerica.htm
Russian America and the colonisation of Alaska from the end of the 18th century to the 1867 sell-off.
  Alaska Siberia Research Center http://aksrc.homestead.com/
An independent , non-profit, non-partisan educational and research institution for thought and opinion on Alaska-Siberia affairs and cultures.
  Northern Studies Links http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/~agraham/nostbm.htm
Long list of links about the history of First Nations and the Polar Regions provided by Yukon College.
  Meeting of Frontiers: Alaska - The Russian Colonization of Alaska http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfak/mfakrcol.html
Although the original impetus for colonizing Alaska was the fur trade, the Russian Orthodox Church had probably the greatest lasting impact on the people of Alaska, helping to create a multicultural Orthodox community that exists to this day.

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