Search for Alaska documents, maps, and photos in the National Archives

The Alaska & Polar Regions Index cites articles in English about Alaska, northern Canada, northern Scandinavia, the Russian Far East, and Antarctica.
Coverage of articles ended in 2016. By the Rasmuson Library Alaska & Polar Regions Collections at UAF.

A wealth of historical photographs, albums, oral histories, moving images, maps, documents, physical objects, and other materials from libraries, museums and archives throughout Alaska. Emphasis on Alaska Native history and cultures and the path to Statehood.

Access to University of Alaska Fairbanks premier collection

Free searches for articles from the Anchorage Daily News and the Alaska Dispatch News from 1985 on. Fee for full-text articles.

Comprehensive Alaska State Library historical resources

Features This Day and This Month in Alaska History

"An online curriculum designed to teach Alaskan high school students about their state, its rich history and its people. The Alaska Humanities Forum and the state’s leading historians, anthropologists, geographers and educators developed the course."

A guide to religious archives that have significant records about Alaska Native people (does not provide links to actual records)

Online materials about Alaska Native history, education, languages, and culture

Varied resources about the Aleutians Islands with particular focus on World War II

Personal papers, university archives, and rare books at the University of Alaska Anchorage/Alaska Pacific University Consortium Library

A collection posted but no longer maintained by the University of Connecticut including historical and cultural materials and classroom materials on Project Chariot and HAARP

Sorted by city. List maintained by Museums Alaska.

A database maintained by the University of Alaska Fairbanks of first contact and first observations in the literature pertaining to Eskimos

The official site of the Kodiak Military history museum including maps and extensive photo collections

The digital branch of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Oral History Program including topical collections and individual interviews

General correspondence held by the Princeton Theological Seminary about Sheldon Jackson's activities as a missionary and educator in Alaska including letters in response to legal action and New York Post criticism of Jackson. On the Internet Archive.

Archive of Presbyterian missionary and U.S. General Agent for Education in Alaska Sheldon Jackson featuring his journals and photograph collections held by the Presbyterian Historical Society. Included are accounts of Jackson's extensive travels in Alaska including those on the US Revenue Cutter "Bear." On the Internet Archive.

This list of libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions that include Alaskana collections - archival, book, or both - is a work in progress. Most are in Alaska. All are open to researchers, although some may require an appointment. If your institution isn't included and you think it should be, please let us know.

An index maintained by the Tuzzy Consortium Library (Utqiaġvik, formerly Barrow) to the Tundra Times, the newspaper edited by Howard Rock, as the voice of Alaska Natives. See http://ttip.tuzzy.org for more information about the project.

Canadian government archive that documents Yukon history including the Gold Rush