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Laramie, WY 82071
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Archived News & Events
 
     
May 2, 2008   Reception and exhibit opening for Coat Couture 2008 Exhibit, 5:00-8:00 pm, AHC Loggia.
     
April 24, 2008   Gregory M. Franzwa, author of The Mormon Trail Revisited, will present a program on the route of the National Historic Trail.
     
April 20-21, 2008   Wyoming History Day State Contest
     
March 10, 2008   The Future of Public History Symposium
     
February 22, 2008  

Deadline for the AHC's Bertha Klausner Research Fellowship

     
February 22, 2008   Deadline for the AHC's Bernard L. Majewski Research Fellowship
     
October 12, 2007  

The American Heritage Center Salutes The All American Cowboy. Open House including Lectures, Exhibits, Valuable Door Prizes, and “Tailgate Snacks.” 2:30pm-6:30pm, Centennial Complex.

     
October 10, 2007  

Ryan Dearinger, 2007 AHC Travel Grant Recipient will present "Problematizing Western Progress: Immigrants, Mormons, and Masculinity at Work on the Transcontinental Railroad" from 3:00-4:00 p.m. Wyoming Stock Growers' Room.

     
October 2, 2007   2007 Bernard L. Majewski Lecture by Jessica Smith, "Kinship, Labor, and the Law: Women's Engagement with Wyoming's Coal Mining Industry." 4:00-5:00 p.m., Wyoming Stock Grower's Room.
May 3-August 17, 2007   Coat Couture Exhibit on display in the AHC Loggia.
     
May 24, 2007   Journalist John Clayton will lecture from his book The Cowboy Girl: The Life of Caroline Lockhart from 3-5 PM in the AHC Stock Grower's Room. The lecture is free and open to the public, with a book signing to follow.
     
May 2, 2007   Coat Couture Exhibit Opening from 5-8 PM in the AHC Loggia.
     
April 23, 2007   Wyoming History Day State Contest
     
February 23, 2007   Deadline for the AHC's Bertha Klausner Research Fellowship .
     
February 23, 2007   Deadline for the AHC's Bernard L Majewski Fellowship.
     
January 19, 2007   "Uplift and Erosion: Literary Geology and the 19th Century American West". Free lecture by Dr. Ann Lundberg, 3:00-4:00 in the AHC Wyoming Stock Growers' Room.
     
January 12, 2007   Deadline for the AHC's Award for Undergraduate Research Using Primary Sources.
     

January 11, 2007 3:00-4:00 PM

  George A. Rentschler Lecture by Ian Phimister, “Copper and Decolonisation in Central Africa: Sir Ronald Prain and the End of Empire.” AHC Wyoming Stock Grower's Room with a reception to follow.
     
November 27, 2006   Deadline for the AHC's Teaching and Research Grants.
     
November 9, 2006   Lee Alley, Wheatland author and Wyoming's most highly decorated Vietnam veteran, will sign and discuss his book, Back from War: A Quest for Life After Death on Thursday, November 9, 3:00 p.m., in the American Heritage Center's Wyoming Stock Growers' room. The event is free and open to the public. A reception and booksigning will follow the lecture.
     
October 20, 2006  

"The Secret Scrapbook of a Soiled Dove" will be the presenation at the AHC Stock Growers' Room at 3 PM with a free reception to follow.

The AHC Reference Manager contributed a chapter about a scrapbook created by Monte Arlington Grover, a Laramie prostitute, to The Scrapbook in American Life, a collection of essays that was recently honored with the Pioneer America Society's 2006 Alan B. Noble Award for excellence as the best-edited book on North American material culture.

     
September 30, 2006, 3-5:00 PM   "Evolution Toward Equality: Equality for Women in the American West" is the topic of Teresa S. Neal's lecture at the AHC Wyoming Sock Grower's Room. A book signing and free reception will follow.
     
September 28, 2006, 3:30-5 PM   "Tracks, Trails, and Thieves: The Adventures and Discoveries of Ferdinand V. Hayden's 1868 Geologic Expedition of the Wyoming Territory" will be the subject of the 2006 Bernard L. Majewski Lecture by Jack E. Deibert, at the AHC Wyoming Sock Grower's Room.
     
September 18, 2006   The Wyoming Partnership for Civic Education will help celebrate Constituion Day at UW.
     
August 15-18, 2006   AHC hosts the Wyoming State Bar Summitt & Judicial Conference
     
September 14, 2005, 4-6 p.m.   Celebrate 350: Jewish Life in America 1654-2004, a free public program, will be held at the AHC Wyoming Stock Grower's Room.
     
April 29-August 11, 2005   Caleidoscope Couture: Art to Wear, featuring the one-of-a kind garmets by Dr. Donna Brown, UW Department of Family and Consumer Sciences in the AHC Loggia.
     
April 24-25, 2005   Wyoming History Day
     
April 8, 2005   “My Cowboy Hat Still Fits: My Life as a Rodeo Star” by Abe Morris. AHC Wyoming Stock Growers Room, 3-5 p.m.
     
March 21, 2005  

AHC 2005 Symposium, "Through the Rearview Mirror: Wyoming's Parks, Public Lands, and Politics" with former U.S. Secretary of the Interior James Watt. University of Wyoming Union, 2 pm.

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March 9, 2005   Librarian of Congress James Billington gave a presentation on their National Digital Library Program. Former Wyoming U.S. Senator Alan K. Simpson introduced Billington.
     
November 1, 2004   Michael Kohl, "A Triceratops Hunt in Pioneer Wyoming: The Journals of Barnum Brown & J. P. Sam: The University of kansas Expedition of 1895"
     
October 27, 2004   Historian Hal Rothman provided the 2004 Majewski Lecture.
     
May-August 21, 2004   Coat Couture VII Exhibit in AHC Loggia. See the Virtual Exhibits for previous displays.
     
June 9, 2004   Writer Chavawn Kelley will present "An Artist Learns to See Land: Alfred Jacob Miller in the Wind RIver Mountains, 1837."
     
April 25-26, 2004   Wyoming State History Day.
     
December 3, 2003   A Holiday Celebration. 7:00-8:30 p.m., Centennial Complex Lobby. Free and open to the public.
     
November 14, 2003
  Bernard L. Majewski Research Fellow --Garrit A. Voggesser. "Of Woods and Water: Negotiating Natural Resources on the Blackfeet and Flathead Reservations, 1900-1945." 3:00 p.m., Wyoming Stock Growers' Room, American Heritage Center. Free and open to the public.
     
October 24, 2003   Presentation, "Dying for Custer", 4:00 p.m. in the Wyoming Stock Growers' Room. Reception to follow presentation. Free and open to the public.
     
October 3-4, 2003   Archives Week. Free and open to the public.
     
October 3, 2003   George A. Rentschler Distinguished Visiting Guest Lecturer Mark Zwonitzer (author, and producer and director of historical documentaries, including the PBS Transcontinental Railroad). Wyoming Stock Growers' Room, 3:30 p.m. (reception to follow at 4:30 p.m.) Free and open to the public.
     


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