The Alaskan History missing from our curriculum
Alaskan history overlooks the destruction of the Tlingit villages of Kake, Angoon, and Douglass.
Month: June 2020
When history is no longer hidden
In the mid-80s, I joined my mother at Amnesty International meetings in the Centennial Building. Nelson Mandela was never one of the prisoners of conscience our group wrote letters for. He, and the South African ...
Jeff Davis street
While there is a national debate on monuments and statues, it’s worth talking about more than just the Confederates. Sitka has a street named for Jeff Davis (the Union one, not the Confederate President) Davis ...
The four stories behind every statue
A statue tells four stories. First, there is the story of the person to be memorialized. Statues are not very good at this. For this story, read a book. The second is the story of ...