Anchorage and Empire: Early Anchorage as an Imperial Outpost
by Kathleen McCoy |
Sunday, Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m.
Anchorage Museum
UAA hosts the 5th Annual Alaska Day Polaris Lecture on Sunday, Oct. 18 at 7:30 p.m.
at the Anchorage Museum. Professor Preston Jones of John Brown University will address
"Anchorage and Empire: Early Anchorage as an Imperial Outpost."
Jones earned his Ph.D. at the University of Ottawa. His published work includes Empire's
Edge: American Society in Nome, Alaska, 1898-1925. His Polaris Lecture will be taken
from a forthcoming book titled A Model Village: Anchorage, Alaska, on the Pacific
Rim, 1914-1941.
The annual Alaska Day Polaris Lecture is presented by the Forty-Ninth State Fellows
Program of the University Honors College. The Forty-Ninth State Fellows Program is
supported in part by grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the Intercollegiate
Studies Institute and the UAA Polaris Society.
This event is free and open to the public. Parking at UAA is free after 7:30 p.m.
For additional information about this event or UAA's Polaris Lectures, please contact
Stephen Haycox at (907) 786-1978 or afswh1@uaa.alaska.edu, or Louise Lazur at (907)
786-1051 or anlcl@uaa.alaska.edu.