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To Be or Not to Be: Statues, History and This Historical Moment.


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Dr. Steve Haycox has taught history at UAA for half a century. He continues to teach, research, and write, though not as many hours of the day as a quarter-century ago.

There were slides that Dr. Haycox used and they can be found here -

http://www.akwebguy.com/photos/AUUF_photos/Steve%20Haycox-Forum-Statues/index.html#0

There were also several interesting links that came up in chat -

an opinion piece on Woodrow Wilson and racism -

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/opinion/woodrow-wilson-princeton.html

two articles on the Eklutna people and the Captain Cook statue -

https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Native-Village-of-Eklutna-will-decide-what-happens-with-Captain-Cook-statue-571514411.html

and

https://www.adn.com/opinions/2020/06/30/public-process-needed-on-cook-statue/

Steve Haycox opinion piece - Alaska's isolation, economic dependence fosters unhealthy fear -

https://www.adn.com/commentary/article/alaskas-dependence-fosters-unhealthy-fear/2014/10/17/

Captain Cook's "Voyages of Discovery " -

https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/stories/captain-cooks-voyages-discovery

and

https://theconversation.com/they-are-all-dead-for-indigenous-people-cooks-voyage-of-discovery-was-a-ghostly-visitation-126430

and

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-russia-gave-alaska-americas-gateway-arctic-180962714/

ask vs aks -

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/people-have-been-saying-ax-instead-ask-1200-years-180949663/

“The Doctrine of Discovery” - a documentary available here -

]http://www.38plus2productions.com

All of these "came up" while Dr. Haycox spoke

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