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 The American Heritage Center and the University of Wyoming administrative offices and libraries will be closed Friday, July 3, for the Independence Day holiday. |
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| Coat Couture XI Art to Wear exhibit on display at the American Heritage Center until August 27, 2009. READ MORE |
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| News Release--UW News: Wyoming History Day Winners Selected. May 13, 2009 -- Judges have selected winners in the recent Wyoming History Day competition held at the University of Wyoming. READ MORE |
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The Spring 2009 American Heritage Center newsletter, Heritage Highlights, is available to download now.  (386 kb) |
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| 2009 Wyoming History Day at the AHC on April 20, 2009. National History Day is a year-long education program that engages students in grades 6-12 in the process of discovery and interpretation of historical topics. As individuals or in groups, students produce dramatic performances, imaginative exhibits, multi-media documentaries, research papers, and Web sites based on research related to an annual theme. The 2009 theme is The Individual in History: Actions and Legacies. These projects are then evaluated at local (district), state, and national competitions. Students develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills that will help them manage and use information now and in the future. Public, private, and home schools are welcome to participate.This year Taco John's International, Inc., History Day Scholarship goes to Talysa Stockert of Greybull High School in Greybull, Wyoming. She was in the Senior Individual Exhibit division and the title of her entry was "Fred Hargesheimer's Fateful Fall." READ MORE on 2009 Wyoming History Day. |
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The American Heritage Center, in cooperation with the Wyoming Partnership for Civic Education and the UW College of Education, and funding from the U.S. Department of Education, is preparing to introduce six CDs filled with photographs, correspondence, transcripts, and other documents related to various topics refl ected in our diverse collections. The CDs are intended for use by teachers in Wyoming and across the country.
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| AHC Photo of the Month. Each month the American Heritage Center features an on-line photograph from the Center's collections. This month's photograph features the Castro Theater in San Francisco, California, built in 1922 at a cost of $300,000. This interior shot from the L. Kenneth Wilson Cinema Collection dates from the post 1937 replacement of the original parchment chandelier that was destroyed in an electrical fire. The Castro Theater is one of the few operational 1920’s movie palaces in the country and the epicenter of gay culture in the United States. |
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UW Digital Collections. Digital collections include portions of motion picture, audio, text, and photographs from AHC collections. These collections were built as part of the UW Digital Initiative. The Initiative is a partnership of the UW American Heritage Center and University Libraries and emphasizes the collections and technological strengths of both partners. Photo: A Man on a Horse from the Charles J. Belden Collections
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On-line Exhibits: More than 20 on-line exhibits, from a history of the Western Stock Growers' Association to an examination of antelopes in Wyoming, from a history of the University of Wyoming to a visual essay on Vietnam combat photography, are examples of the AHC's popular traveling exhibit program. If you're interested in the on-line exhibits please learn more about our Traveling Exhibit Program. Photo: A trophy buck on the Wyoming prairie. From the Traveling Exhibit "More Pronghorn Than People."
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Popular AHC Collection Catalog Searches: New visitors to our Web site and collections might find it helpful to explore either our "printed" collection guides or our pre-defined Web catalog searches. These resources can help you find nearly complete lists of our collections relating, for example, to politics, Native American resources, authors, mining and petroleum history resources, agriculture, journalism, and ranching--to name just a few! Photo: Senator Gale McGee campaigning in Wyoming in 1970. -
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