This Day in Alaska History-December 6th, 1906
How George Washington Ignited a Political Firestorm Over Thanksgiving
Painting of George Washington with his family, wife Martha, and her grandchildren, by artist Edward Savage. In September 1789, members of America’s first Congress approached the nation’s first president, George Washington, and asked him to call for a national Thanksgiving. That seemingly benign request ignited a furor in Congress over presidential powers and states’ rights. […]
This Day in Alaska History-September 24th, 1918
A guide to the Alaska that was (is)
In 1935, in the middle of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Federal Writers’ Project. His goal was to provide jobs for American writers who found themselves unemployed after the stock market crash of 1929. Merle Colby was one of those writers. As the U.S. economy tanked, his freelance work for the […]