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2018 Alaskana Award from the Alaska Library Association 2018 Alaska Historical Society James H. Drucker Alaska Historian of the Year AwardWalter Harper, Alaska Native Son illuminates the life of the remarkable Irish-Athabascan man who was the first person to summit Mount Denali, North America’s tallest mountain. Born in 1893, Walter Harper was the youngest child of Jenny Albert and the legendary gold prospector Arthur Harper. His parents separ...

Award-winning historian Mary F. Ehrlander and Hild M. Peters tell the compelling story of Episcopal missionaries who engaged in social reform and delivered critical health care to Alaska Native communities as economic development and white migration negatively impacted Native life.

Mary F. Ehrlander is the director of Arctic and Northern Studies and a professor of history at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.¿She is the author of Equal Educational Opportunity:¿Brown’s Elusive Mandate and coauthor of Education Reform in the American States. ¿