Russ White talks with Brandon Wilks, director of the Haines Sheldon Museum. During WWII, the U.S. provided aircraft to the Soviet Union under the Lead-Lease Program. Fairbanks was where aircraft were delivered, to be transferred to Soviet pilots.

Russ White talks with Jonathan Flood of Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park about music of the Gold Rush era.

Russ White talks with Haines Sheldon Museum director Brandon Wilks. Three things we benefit from that originated in Alaska: The tsunami warning system; The aircraft emergency beacon satellite system; and … ranch dressing?

Russ White talks with Haines Sheldon Museum director Brandon Wilks. More tales of the Gold Rush, and how word of the strike first got out.

Russ White talks with Jonathan Flood from the National Park Service. “On to Alaska with Buchanan!” Businessman George Buchanan arranged for hundreds of kids and teenagers to visit Alaska between 1922 and 1938.

Russ White talks with Sheldon Museum director Brandon Wilks. How to combine Fund Drive Week and the United States’ 250th anniversary into one History Talk? With the story of how the American Revolution was funded!

Russ White talks with Jonathan Flood of the National Parks Service about the DKT Tramway, one of the tramways operating across the Chilkoot Pass during the Klondike Gold Rush

Russ White talks with Haines Sheldon Museum director Brandon Wilks. In 1963, a group of UA students appeared on the national TV quiz show “General Electric College Bowl.”

Russ White talks with Haines Sheldon Museum director Brandon Wilks. The first recorded successful climb of Mount Denali was in 1913.

Russ White talks with Sheldon Museum director Brandon Wilks. It’s the 50th anniversary of the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend.