Steve Haycox is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UAA where he taught history full-time for 40 years. His honors include the University system’s Edith Bullock Prize for Excellence, an Alaska Governor’s Award in the Humanities, and designation by the Alaska Historical Society twice as Historian of the Year. His books include a history of Alaska titled Alaska: An American Colony and Frigid Embrace, an investigation of the conflict between economic development and environmental protection in Alaska. He writes an occasional op/ed column for the Anchorage Daily News and continues to research and write. He is working on a history of Alaska’s political shift from liberal to conservative.