From Francis Scott Key’s pen in 1814 through war, peace and even Jimi Hendrix’s screeching electric guitar at Woodstock, the Star Spangled Banner has lasted as an American icon — and an anthem that’s nearly impossible to sing. But as Joe Janes of the University of Washington Information Schooldiscovered when studying Key’s rockets’-red-glare-lit inspiration for his Documents that Changed the […]
A grant from the Alaska State Museum will help the Alutiiq Museum preserve a piece of recent Kodiak history, the revitalization of Alutiiq dance. Thirty years ago, members of the Kodiak Alutiiq community began researching Alutiiq dance, with the goal of creating the first traditional dancers in a century. Elders’ knowledge, ethnographic research, and assistance […]
The year is 1905. You are a prospector in Alaska relaxing in your cabin after a chilly day of working the tailings pile. Craving a cup, you pull a tin of coffee off the shelf. Though you can’t imagine it, that distinctive red can, the one you will later use for your precious supply of […]
Researchers from the Universities of York, Macquarie and Oxford have discovered new evidence to suggest that the origins of mummification started in ancient Egypt 1,500 years earlier than previously thought. The scientific findings of an 11-year study by a researcher in the Department of Archaeology at York, and York’s BioArCh facility, and an Egyptologist from […]