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

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).