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UAA/APU Archives and Special Collections collects, preserves, describes, and makes accessible records that document Alaska's past and present. In our podcast, Archiving AK, we interview fellow archivists, users of archives, and discuss our collections.
Becky Butler-Gallegos asks what a granddaughter remembers beyond the papers; you get the family in the margins.
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A family archive opens into wartime memory, Anchorage civic debate, and the fragile work of holding lives in view.
The Selkirk papers open into a more human story as archivist Becky Butler-Gallegos talks with Julia O'Malley, Fred and Lydia's granddaughter. The conversation moves from the couple's wartime meeting on an Italian dance floor to the Anchorage civic debates preserved in…
A kitchen-table petition opens into a broader history of Alaska advocacy, archives, and women shaping Anchorage.
Helen D. Nienhauser's papers bring Alaska history down to the level of daily civic work: land use, recreation, advocacy, and a petition campaign that began with a newspaper at the kitchen table.
A park ranger's memories bring Alaska parks history close to the trail.
This single-episode review centers on Neal C. Johanson, a longtime Alaska State Parks figure, and finds its shape in a practical question: who are parks meant to serve?
A radio operator's routes connect northern supply work, green boats, malaria, Chongqing, and a fight over graduation.
A working life is traced through routes, ships, and the choices that followed them. A radio operator remembers a 1920 supply run north of Nome, a first visit to Dutch Harbor and Alcatan, and then a new post aboard the Admiral Farragut.
Taiwan, remembered through conversation.
Archiving AK uses the Fred and Lydia Selkirk papers at UAA/APU in Anchorage to show how one family archive ties together civil rights, earthquake planning, and climate risk.
Archiving AK's Federal Lands 5 centers on the Helen Nienhauser papers, with Becky Butler-Gallegos interviewing John Wolfe Jr.
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Archivists discuss the Commonwealth North collection and their work on the Alaska Federal Lands Project.
Archiving AK with the UAA/APU Archives records family memories of Michael Adolph, a University of Minnesota Medical School graduate who practiced in Mankato and served as a medical officer at a World War I prison camp.
["Hilscher remembers inventing a 2.5-page radio story about 12-year-old Mabel Hartfield, then getting caught when a real Japan earthquake bulletin reached the ship.
An oral history interview with Maurice Carmody about his early experiences in Alaska and his involvement with the Tyonick area in 1939.
An oral history interview with a former U.S.
An interview discussing Alaska's early statehood legal challenges and political conflicts over land claims.
An oral history interview with former Lieutenant Governor Red Boucher about Alaska's Native Land Claims movement and his role during the 1970s.
An interview with the Alaska State Archivist and an archivist about the State Archives' role, collections, and projects.