"He Who Holds Alaska Holds The World": Competing International Claims to the Alaskan Territory and North Pacific (1820-1945)

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Presentation by Kyley Canion Brewer, PhD candidate in the Department of History at Washington State University and recipient of the 2024 James W. Scott Regional Research Fellowship. Kyley Canion Brewer discusses research informing a larger doctoral dissertation regarding nuclear energy and Alaska during the Cold War. This presentation focuses particularly on the contests for ownership of Alaska, the Bering Strait and region during the nineteenth century (including interests and claims of Russia, the United States, Britain, Japan, Norway and Sweden).

Keywords

Alaska, Cold War, North Pacific, Bering Strait

Document Type

Event

Start Date

15-1-2025 11:00 AM

End Date

15-1-2025 11:30 AM

Location

Virtual

Resource Type

Moving image

Duration

00:26:58

Title of Series

Archives & Special Collections Speaker Series

Genre/Form

lectures

Contributing Repository

Digital object made available by University Archives, Archives & Special Collections, Western Libraries, Western Washington University

Program

Center for Pacific Northwest Studies

Identifier

cpnws_scottfellow_canionbrewer_20250115

Geographic Coverage

Alaska; Bering Strait

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English

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"He Who Holds Alaska Holds The World": Competing International Claims to the Alaskan Territory and North Pacific (1820-1945)

Virtual

Presentation by Kyley Canion Brewer, PhD candidate in the Department of History at Washington State University and recipient of the 2024 James W. Scott Regional Research Fellowship. Kyley Canion Brewer discusses research informing a larger doctoral dissertation regarding nuclear energy and Alaska during the Cold War. This presentation focuses particularly on the contests for ownership of Alaska, the Bering Strait and region during the nineteenth century (including interests and claims of Russia, the United States, Britain, Japan, Norway and Sweden).