A Concise History of Alaska
The Story of an American State

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1 The Land Before Time: Alaska's Ancient Geography and First Peoples
• Chapter 2 The Bering Land Bridge and the Arrival of the First Americans
• Chapter 3 The Thule and Inuit: Masters of the Arctic
• Chapter 4 The Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian of the Southeast
• Chapter 5 The Athabascan Peoples of the Interior
• Chapter 6 The Aleut and Alutiiq of the Coastal Islands
• Chapter 7 The Arrival of Russian Explorers in the Eighteenth Century
• Chapter 8 Vitus Bering and the Russian-American Expedition
• Chapter 9 The Fur Trade and the Russian-American Company
• Chapter 10 Alexander Baranov and the Founding of Sitka
• Chapter 11 The Brutal Harvest: Sea Otters and the Maritime Fur Trade
• Chapter 12 Russian Orthodox Missions and Cultural Influence
• Chapter 13 The Decline of Russian America
• Chapter 14 The Alaska Purchase: "Seward's Folly" of 1867
• Chapter 15 Early American Administration and the Army Years
• Chapter 16 The Gold Rush Era Begins: Juneau and the Klondike
• Chapter 17 The Nome Gold Rush and the Wild Frontier
• Chapter 18 The Alaska Railroad and Territorial Development
• Chapter 19 Alaska as a Strategic Territory: World War II and the Aleutian Campaign
• Chapter 20 The Japanese Invasion of Attu and Kiska
• Chapter 21 The Long Road to Statehood
• Chapter 22 The Alaska Statehood Act of 1959
• Chapter 23 The Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964
• Chapter 24 The Discovery of Oil at Prudhoe Bay and the Pipeline
• Chapter 25 Modern Alaska: Challenges, Identity, and the Twenty-First Century