In a way, Alaska existed in the Russian imagination long before it had ... Baird was building the Smithsonian's natural history collection, and hoped to include all parts of the North American ...

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN)-- It was one of the greatest humanitarian acts in history. At the beginning ... The place names of Russian Alaska are an apt companion to the Eastern European surnames ...

On June 23, a group of Sitkans petitioned to remove the sculpture of the first governor of Russian ... in Alaska was struck by the current storm of the US running away from its own history.