Alaska's Digital Newspaper Program

About the Program

The Alaska State Library was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities and Library of Congress grant for the 2016-2018 cycle of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). The purpose of the program is to digitally preserve and provide free access to historical newspapers in a searchable online database, Chronicling America. Currently, Alaska has added over 103,000 pages to Chronicling America. Available titles are linked below.

For more information & project updates, follow us on our WordPress blog or Instagram @alaskahistoricalnewspapers. Learn more about the history of the Alaska Newspaper project.

2016-2018 Titles Selected for Digitization

1. Juneau
   • The Alaska Daily Empire, 1912-1922
   • The Stroller's Weekly and Douglas Island News, 1921-1931
2. Douglas City
   • Douglas Island News, 1898-1921
3. Sitka
   • The Thlinget, 1908-1912
4. Skagway
   • The Morning Alaskan, 1898-1899
   • The Daily Alaskan, 1898-1899
   • The Daily Morning Alaskan, 1899-1904
   • The Daily Alaskan, 1904-1922
5. Valdez
   • The Alaska Prospector, 1902-1908
   • Daily Prospector Bulletin, 1905-1911
   • Valdez Daily Prospector, 1905-1918
6. Iditarod
   • Iditarod Pioneer, 1910-1919
7. Cordova
   • Cordova Daily Times, 1914-1922
8. Seward
   • Seward Gateway, 1904-1905
   • Daily Gateway, 1905
   • Seward Daily Gateway, 1905-1914
   • The Seward Gateway, 1914-1917
   • The Seward Gateway and The Alaska Evening Post, 1917-1918
   • The Seward Gateway Daily Edition, and the Alaska Weekly Post, 1918-1920
   • The Seward Gateway, 1920-1922
9. Fairbanks
   • The Alaska Citizen, 1910-1917
   • The Daily Alaska Citizen, 1916-1920
   • The Weekly Alaska Citizen
10. Nome
    • The Nome Nugget, 1901-1906
    • The Nome Daily Nugget, 1906-1918
    • The Nome Tri-Weekly Nugget, 1918-1919
    • The Nome Nugget, 1919-1922

See all Alaska's Historic Newspapers on Chronicling America »

Advisory Committee Members, Past and Present

• Chris Allan
  Historian
  Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve
  National Park Service, Fairbanks
• Jo Antonson
  Alaska State Historian
  Office of History and Archeology, Anchorage
• Michael Blackwell
  Consulting Geological Engineer
  Historical Researcher, Gastineau Historical Society
• Jason Russell
  Archivist/Technical Services Librarian
  Tuzzy Consortium Library
• Michael Carey
  Editorial columnist
  Formerly editorial page editor for the Alaska Dispatch News (formerly called the Anchorage Daily News)
• James Brooks
  State Reporter
  Juneau Empire
• Esther Ilutsik
  Director of Yup'ik Studies with the Southwest Region Schools
  Dillingham
• Rebecca Moorman
  Head of Technical Services
  Consortium Library, University of Alaska Anchorage
  Alaska Pacific University, with a degree in history
• David Noon
  Associate Professor of History
  University of Alaska Southeast
• Barbara Thompson
  Second Vice Chair
  Alaska State Board of Education
• Marjorie Thompson
  Manager
  Digital Photographic Services
  Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks
• Jennifer Ward, MLIS
  Associate Professor of Library and Information Science, Outreach Services Librarian
  Egan Library