Bibframe Work

Far-off and distant territories : Alaska and Hawai'i on the eve of World War II

Hawai'i : a Gibraltar worth defending?

Alaska : a land without people

And the war came: World War II in the territories, 1941-1945

World War II and the transformation of Hawai'i

World War II and the creation of modern Alaska

And the war came again : statehood and the cold war in Alaska and Hawai'i, 1946-1956

The cold war stymies Hawai'i as the forty-ninth state, 1946-1950

The continuing transformation of Hawai'i, 1950-1956

The cold war activates Alaska, 1946-1954

The Alaska legends : the constitutional convention and the Alaska-Tennessee Plan, 1955-1956

The needle and the thread : Alaska and Hawai'i complete the union, 1957-1959

We're in : Alaska takes the lead as the forty-ninth state, 1957-1959

The last territorial delegate and the admission of Hawai'i, 1957-1959

Epilogue : the legacy of the fifty-star flag

Journey's end: a personal note.