Alaska History reading list

Posted on 2006 March 24 by | 16 Comments

Karen Fluegel, former teacher at the Moravian Children’s Home and retired manager of the Moravian Book Store, recommends reading these books. They should be available at the Kuskokwim Consortium Library.

  • Chills and Fever: Health and Disease in the Early History of Alaska

    • by Robert Fortuine. 1989. Publisher: University of Alaska Press. ISBN: 0912006587 (an excellent book)

  • Alaska’s Search for a Killer: A Seafaring Medical Adventure 1946-1948

    • by Susan Meredith with Kitty Gair and Elaine Schwinge. 1998. Published by Alaska Public Health Nurses Assoc. (about the ship of nurses which visited Villages, 1946-48) 0-965984-91-5,
    http://www.uaf.edu/uapress/books/AlaskasSearchforaKiller.htm

  • Eskimo Medicine Man

    • by Otto George. Publisher: Oregon Historical Society (1978). ISBN: 0875950620 (based at Akiak PHS hospital before it moved to Bethel).

  • Frontier Physician: The Life and Legacy of Dr. C. Earl Albrecht

    • by Nancy Jordan. 1996. Publisher: Epicenter Pr. ISBN: 094539750X (first Alaska health commissioner).

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    16 Responses to Alaska History reading list

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    3. Pam | 2006 June 16 at 8:46 pm | Reply

      If looking for more info on Moravian Church in our area, start with some of these references here (the history book of the Alaskan Moravian Church is no longer in print.)
      Small Business in Western Alaska -
      http://tinyurl.com/o8h97

    4. Pam | 2006 July 5 at 9:46 pm | Reply

      A reader has led me to the UAA archive collection of Elaine Schwinge–

      “Historical Manuscripts Collection List » O to SO Collection List »

      ELAINE A. SCHWINGE. Journals; 1946-1950, 1996. .2 cu. ft.

      Elaine Schwinge, M.D., served as a field physician for the Alaska Territorial Department of Health under health commissioner C. Earl Albrecht from 1946 to 1950. She served on the Mobile Health Unit, the ship M.S. Hygiene, the BCG (tuberculosis vaccine) Program, and the Alaska Native Service Hospital in Bethel. Schwinge received her Master of Public Health degree from the University of Michigan in 1948. She later worked in psychiatry for the United States Public Health Service, the National Institute for Mental Health, and the state of Pennsylvania. Elaine Schwinge lives in Allentown, Pennsylvania

      The collection consists of a copy of Dr. Elaine Schwinge’s journals from her service in the Alaska Territorial Department of Health from 1946 to 1950. The journals are divided by year and include diary and journal entries, narrative reports, correspondence, articles, stories, photographs, and other selected documents. The journals also include tables of contents and time lines. Also included in the collection is an expanded version of her journals from 1996, which has typed versions of the journal entries and documents, and a corresponding CD-R computer disc. The archives also holds the papers of Dr. C. Earl Albrecht.

      The collection was presented to the archives by Margery Albrecht in 1999. The expanded version of the journals was presented to the archives by Elaine Schwinge in 2005.

      HMC-0484
      JAS (3/2005)

      http://tinyurl.com/gdr4d

    5. Pam | 2006 August 26 at 6:43 pm | Reply

      The oral history projects at the University of Alaska Fairbanks http://uaf-db.uaf.edu/Jukebox/PJWeb/pjhome.htm Project Jukebox
      contain materials referring to 1918,
      http://tinyurl.com/o9kly

    6. mpb | 2006 November 5 at 8:21 pm | Reply

      Here is a set of stories, similar to the Firefox books, put together by schoolchildren in our region. I don’t remember if influenza is included.

      Cama-I Book: Kayaks, Dogsleds, Bear Hunting, Bush Pilots, Smoked Fish, Mukluks and Other Traditions of Southwestern Alaska (Paperback)
      by Ann Vick (editor)
      Student writings on personalities, heritage, and lifestyles in their varied Alaskan communities.
      * Paperback: 411 pages
      * Publisher: Anchor Books; 1st ed edition (February 1983)
      * Language: English
      * ISBN: 0385152124
      # Hardcover
      # Publisher: Doubleday (1983)
      # ASIN: B000JWHQU6

    7. mpb | 2006 November 5 at 10:07 pm | Reply

      Circumpolar Curiculum Collection: Arctic Educational Resources Index
      Compiled by Ann Vick-Westgate
      Digitized by Jonathan Markowitz and Jim Forrest, Peabody Essex Museum, 2004

      http://www.echospace.org/features.html

    8. Pam | 2007 February 17 at 3:52 pm | Reply

      from crofsblogs, http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2007/02/a_disturbing_ec.html

      The Letters of Margaret Butcher: Missionary-Imperialism on the North Pacific Coast (Paperback), by Mary-Ellen Kelm (Editor)
      # Paperback: 273 pages
      # Publisher: University of Calgary Press (April 2005)
      # Language: English
      # ISBN-10: 1552381668
      # ISBN-13: 978-1552381663

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    13. Wesley Ross | 2008 November 27 at 10:29 am | Reply

      This may be the wrong venue, however–
      About 1953 I installed a mobile x-ray machine in a temporary unit at Bethel–after the hospital was destroyed by fire. Later, I installed a full sized x-ray in the replacement hospital. Previously had installed several units in Sitka ANS, and later one in Kanakanak.

      I would appreciate being directed toward any information regarding the Bethel ANS hospital at that time.

      Wesley Ross–Then Sales/Engineer Western X-ray Company
      17411 SW McCormick
      Hillsboro, OR 97123

    14. mpb | 2008 November 27 at 12:21 pm | Reply

      Wesley this sounds interesting. I’ll re-post this so someone else might be able to see your inquiry easier.

      Also, don’t forget to write up or take notes on your experience.

      In the meantime, here is a photo of where some of your old digs lie now–
      http://flickr.com/photos/hlthenvt/288250484/

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