On September 13th, 1955, 55 delegates were elected to attend a special Alaska constitutional convention at UAF’s Student Union Building (later named Constitution Hall) The number of delegates elected, 55, was chosen to mirror the 55 delegates that went to Philadelphia to create the original Constitution between May 25 and September 17, 1787. Frank Peratrovich, a Southeastern […]
When Mottrom Dulany Ball left Virginia for Alaska in 1878, he was not setting out to become a pioneer in the usual sense. He was a lawyer, former Confederate cavalry officer, newspaper editor and political figure whose career had taken an unexpected turn following the Civil War. His appointment to Alaska came at a […]
Almost 49,000 voters made their way to 297 polling places in the territory of Alaska on August 26th,1958. The voters cast their votes for a proposition in a six-to-one margin in the special election to approve statehood for the territory. The turnout was so tremendous that in many of the polling places, the ballot supply […]
“It seems one of the ways this effort will take shape is, as with DHS’s deportation efforts, to racially profile voters and try to invalidate their votes by pretending they’re not citizens,” said one critic. President Donald Trump is using the US Department of Homeland Security to quietly assert federal control over elections in at least eight states, […]