Download or read book The Battle for Alaska Statehood written by Ernest Gruening and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the campaign for statehood by former governor and present senator of Alaska.
Download or read book Battle for Alaska Statehood written by and published by . This book was released on 1967-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alaska Statehood the Memory of the Battle and the Evaluation of the Present by Those who Lived it written by Claus-M. Naske and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Completing the Union written by John S. Whitehead and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the thirteen-year effort to add the 49th and 50th states to the Union.
Download or read book Reaching for a Star written by Gerald E. Bowkett and published by Epicenter Press (WA). This book was released on 1989 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the political struggle to acquire statehood for Alaska.
Download or read book Alaska s Press and the Battle for Statehood written by Carroll V. Glines and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fighting for the Forty Ninth Star written by Terrence Cole and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Alaskans in the 1950s demanded an end to "second-class citizenship" of territorial status, southern powerbrokers on Capitol Hill were the primary obstacles. They feared a forty-ninth state would tip the balance of power against segregation, and therefore keeping Alaska out of the Union was simply another means of keeping black children out of white schools. C.W. "Bill" Snedden, the publisher of America's farthest north daily newspaper, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, helped lead the battle of the Far North against the Deep South. Working behind the scenes with his protege, a young attorney named Ted Stevens, and a fellow Republican newspaperman, Secretary of Interior Fred Seaton, Snedden's "magnificent obsession" would open the door to development of the oil fields at Prudhoe Bay, inspire establishment of the Arctic Wildlife Range (now the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), and add the forty-ninth star to the flag. Fighting for the Forty-Ninth Star is the story of how the publisher of a little newspaper four thousand miles from Washington, D.C., helped convince Congress that Alaskans should be second-class citizens no more.
Download or read book The Problem of Statehood for Alaska Since World War II written by Alphonse Paul Mayernik and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Doctor the Publisher and the Curmudgeon written by Lynne Marie Snifka and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Much has been written about Alaska's struggle for statehood in 1959. But before there was a unified push for statehood, before World War II changed the face of Alaska forever and people such as Bob Atwood, Bill Egan and Bob Bartlett fought the good fight, there was a "perfect storm" of personalities, politics and press coverage that prepared Alaska for what would become its greatest triumph. This thesis examines the lives, motives and politics of Territorial Governor John Troy, Territorial Governor Ernest Gruening and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. Their individual vendettas, drive and quests for power directly influenced conditions in the Alaska Territory that would lead it to become a state. Along the way, the press corps, notably the Juneau Empire, held sway over the population and used partisanship and agenda setting to keep statehood boosters at bay for more than a decade"--Leaf iii.
Download or read book The Struggle for Statehood in Alaska written by James Bryan Boatenhammer and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Historical Study of the Major Issues of the Alaskan Statehood Struggle written by Helen Rena Upson and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alaska s Struggle for Statehood 1867 1950 written by Joseph Anthony LaPage and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alaska Statehood and Elective Governorship written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: August 17 hearing was held in Ketchikan, Alaska; August 18, 19 hearings were held in Juneau, Alaska; August 20 hearing was held in Fairbanks, Alaska; August 24, 25 hearings were held in Anchorage, Alaska.
Download or read book Ernest Gruening written by Claus-M. Naske and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Ernest Gruening governor of territorial Alaska. What followed were twenty historic years that changed the face of North America when Alaska became a state in 1959. Using unpublished archival materials, Claus-M. Naske follows Gruening from Puerto Rico to the Pacific Islands and from Alaska to Antarctica. As governor, Gruening devoted himself to the economic development of Alaska and fought discrimination against Alaska Natives. In 1958, he was elected to the U.S. Senate where he opposed the Vietnam War and earned a reputation for his liberal views on civil rights. Gruening's letters and memos reveal the challenges that he faced every day as an activist governor and senator. As a man of talent, ambition, and ego, Gruening met conflict head-on and gained the respect of Alaskans for his honesty and plain speech. The life of Ernest Gruening is a personal account of Alaska statehood as well as a political odyssey through the twentieth century.
Download or read book A History of Alaska Statehood written by Claus-M. Naske and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised edition of the 1973 publication containing three new chapters and a postscript, bringing the story of Alaska up to 1984 and the celebrations which marked the 25th anniversary of statehood.
Download or read book Alaska written by Claus M. Naske and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The largest by far of the fifty states, Alaska is also the state of greatest mystery and diversity. And, as Claus-M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick show in this comprehensive survey, the history of Alaska’s peoples and the development of its economy have matched the diversity of its land- and seascapes. Alaska: A History begins by examining the region’s geography and the Native peoples who inhabited it for thousands of years before the first Europeans arrived. The Russians claimed northern North America by right of discovery in 1741. During their occupation of “Russian America” the region was little more than an outpost for fur hunters and traders. When the czar sold the territory to the United States in 1867, nobody knew what to do with “Seward’s Folly.” Mainland America paid little attention to the new acquisition until a rush of gold seekers flooded into the Yukon Territory. In 1906 Congress granted Alaska Territory a voteless delegate and in 1912 gave it a territorial legislature. Not until 1959, however, was Alaska’s long-sought goal of statehood realized. During World War II, Alaska’s place along the great circle route from the United States to Asia firmly established its military importance, which was underscored during the Cold War. The developing military garrison brought federal money and many new residents. Then the discovery of huge oil and natural-gas deposits gave a measure of economic security to the state. Alaska: A History provides a full chronological survey of the region’s and state’s history, including the precedent-setting Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, which compensated Native Americans for their losses; the effect of the oil industry and the trans-Alaska pipeline on the economy; the Exxon Valdez oil spill; and Alaska politics through the early 2000s.
Download or read book Alaska Statehood written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
