Measles, also known as the “Great Sickness” among the Native villages, broke out in Alaska in 1900 and tore through isolated Yup’ik, Iñupiat, and Iñupiaq communities that had little to no prior biological exposure, killing one-quarter to one-half of their populations as it moved through the towns. On November 7th 1913, news was transmitted to […]
It was 83 years today that Japan’s Imperial Navy launched a surprise attack on the Hawaiian Naval base of Pearl Harbor that would result in the United States entering World War II. The attack, designed by Japan to be a preventative action to keep the U.S. from interfering with their military actions in the Philippines, […]
