Next time someone starts talking about the “good old days” keep in mind there was

OK, what time is it?  But there’s a real problem here – what happens if

When it comes to “the past,” it is so easy to say, “Well, in those

There is an old saying that making money is easy. What’s hard is saving it.

Hollywood aficionados will immediately recognize Louise Brooks.  Her beauty is timeless. She was an icon

Two eccentric prospectors vanish in Kotzebue, each claiming to kidnap the other for a million dollars, until Captain Noonan answers with a perfectly legal prank.

The man on the right is my father. This picture was taken in Italy in

Wanna party?! This is a photograph of an ‘entertaining’ evening in Koyukuk in 1900, just

Long before he became well-known as the inventor of Morse Code, Samuel Morse was a

If you don’t live in Alaska, this is just a ‘quaint’ picture from the past.

In 1958, while on tour with Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and The Chantels, the promoter

All Roman roads had mileage stones, set one thousand paces apart. The term “mile” comes

From 1438 to 1532, the Inca Empire covered what is now Peru and Ecuador along

Money. We all want it. But, in fact, it does not exist. Don’t believe me?

Here we have a shot of a raid in 1922. But this raid wasn’t on

Here’s a REAL Alaska Gold Rush saloon!  It’s from the Koyukuk, one of the real-life

In less then two years we will be remembering the day liquor was illegal in

In the teens, someone who was incredibly stupid was known as being “as cunning as

Alaskans have a unique folk art, it’s called “absurding.” Alaskans get tired of hearing tourists

It was the summer of 1920 and it was hot!  Well, the weather was hot

Not much of a photo, eh?  I agree. But in the early days of Alaska,

My favorite quote from ALICE IN WONDERLAND has become my motto as an historian and

As you are reading this, are being quarantined offshore in San Francisco because they might

Anne Royall was one of – if not the first – first female journalist. She