Alaska Yesterday and Today
Angela Schmidt with UAF’s Alaska Film Archives. All week long, sharing stories from KUAC’s television history as we celebrate National Library Week.
This National Library Week, we invite you to take a look back at Alaska.
KUAC’s television programming has captured and explored Alaska as it moved through time—documenting places, events, and ways of life that are always shifting.
Programs like Times Gone By reflect on the past…
While programs like Dyea and the Chilkoot Pass connect present-day Alaskans to the history beneath their feet.
And other KUAC programs captured historic Alaska events as they unfolded in real time, full of energy, community spirit, and sometimes controversy: Trans Alaska Oil Pipeline Lecture Series.
Together, we see how communities grew and changed… how stories were told and retold… and how each generation made sense of the world around them.
Through a partnership between KUAC and the Alaska Film Archives at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Rasmuson Library, more than a thousand historical KUAC programs have been digitized and preserved. And they’re all available for viewing online.
This project is part of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, a national effort supported by the Mellon Foundation, GBH in Boston, and the Library of Congress.
To start exploring, visit americanarchive.org and search for “KUAC Alaska.” Or visit KUAC.org for links.