Historians Committee
Purpose
This committee presents programs and preserves the history of the Alaska Bar.
If you would like to volunteer to serve on the committee email info@alaskabar.org.
Upcoming Events
Tuesday, October 20 | Historians Committee: An American Citizen – Law, Morality, and the Internment of Japanese American Citizens During World War Two
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Snowden/AK Bar Zoom |
1.5 General Credits | Registration Fee: Free
Co-sponsored with the AK Bar Historians Committee
Presenters: Todd Sherwood
Registration link: https://member.alaskabar.org/cv5/cgi-bin/eventsdll.dll/EventInfo?sessionaltcd=2026023
Historian Resources for the Bar and Public
Looking for more historian resources? View our page here for more helpful links for Bar Members and our Community.
Historian Luncheon Audio/Video Recordings
2026 Historians Luncheon – The 59ers Strike It Rich: How Communities in Remote Alaska Fulfilled the Promise of Alaska Statehood. Peter Aschenbrenner
2025 Historians Luncheon – The Taproot: Perspectives on the Pipeline in Alaska Legal History
2024 Historians Luncheon –Regulating the Homeless Then and the Unhoused Now: Territorial Law and Modern Law for Those Who Live on the Streets Outside the Law **Due to technical difficulties, the recording is missing the first 10-15 mins of the presentation.**
2023 Historians Luncheon – A Fairbanks Murder Mystery: Ted Stevens, Johnny Warren and the Unsolved Murder of Cecil Wells
2022 Historians Luncheon – Unconventional Questions: The Hows, Whys, and Why Nots of a Constitutional Convention
2021 Historians Luncheon – 50th Anniversary of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
2020 Historians Luncheon – Centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment: Why Doubling the Size of the Electorate to Include Women Mattered
2019 Historians Luncheon –Watching the Watchmen: Independence, the Indigent, and the Public Defender Agency at Fifty
2017 Historians Luncheon – Raising the Bar: The Fairer Sex Practices Law in Early Alaska
2015 Historians Luncheon – The Lost Alaskans: Morningside Hospital & Mental Health in Territorial Alaska
2014 Historians Luncheon – The Bar Rag: 30 Years of Not Taking Ourselves Too Seriously
2013 Historians Luncheon – The Legacy of Gideon: 50 Years in the 49th State
2002 Historians Luncheon – Constitutional Convention
