I n June of 1970, amid the snow-covered rock ramparts of Denali (the true name of North America’s highest peak), six women ...

On the same day that state-level Republicans in Alaska worked to affirm their close relationship with Canada amid U.S.

Gov. Jeff Landry signed an executive order that directs state agencies to change all references to the Gulf of Mexico in ...

And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...