Early Anchorage as an 'imperial outpost' is topic of free Polaris Lecture Oct. 18

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.

For additional information about this event or UAA's Polaris Lectures, please contact Stephen Haycox at (907) 786-1776 or afswh1@uaa.alaska.edu, or Louise Lazur at (907) 786-4847 or anlcl@uaa.alaska.edu.