If an Alaska cruise is in your summer plans, here’s a delightfully detailed and durable map that will help you track your progress up the Inside Passage with no need for expensive and spotty shipboard ...

Alaska officially became the 49th state of the United States on January 3, 1959. Before that, it was a U.S. territory, which was purchased from Russia in 1867 through the Treaty of Cession. It added ...