On a cold winters day fitting for the occasion, Alaska became an official “United State” on January 3, 1959, however, you ...

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It was proclaimed the 49th U.S. state in 1959. On March 10, 2025, Trump posted a Fox News article about Alaska with the headline: "Alaska leaders cheer Trump oil and gas drilling executive order." ...

When Alaska became a state in 1959, its constitution promised a public school system "open to all children of the State." But for decades, it was far from that.

Many big-name celebrities have trekked to Fairbanks and entertained us over the years. Today we are going to look at the 1959 USO Christmas Tour that brought some very famous folks to Ladd Air ...

Talk of a takeover of Greenland may seem fanciful. But it wouldn’t be the first time the U.S. was able to procure a piece of the Arctic. The U.S. bought Alaska from Russia in 1867.

Alaska is a gold mine, rich in natural resources like petroleum, seafood and literal gold. But the state, which became the United States’ 49th on this day in 1959, wasn’t always considered a ...

North to Alaska is a good-humored, old-fashioned, no-holds-barred, all-stops-out northern, a kind of rowdy second cousin to a not-very-adult western. It’s the sort of easygoing, slaphappy ...

It gained the status of a state on January 3, 1959. Alaska and Russia are positioned about 53 miles apart at their closest point.