American Heritage Center
University of Wyoming
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General Information
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- Monday-Friday 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
(Summer 7:30 AM - 4:30 PM)
- Saturdays 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
(Owen Wister Western Writer's Reading Room and exhibits only)
Location of the American Heritage Center and Visitor Information
- Location:
2111 Willett Drive
Centennial Complex
University of Wyoming
Laramie, WY 82071-3924
- Visitor
Information:
The University of Wyoming's Campus Information web page contains information on the University of Wyoming and Laramie,Wyoming, and local attractions, events, and maps.
An up-to-date listing of programs, exhibits and other activities at the American Heritage Center.
The American Heritage Center conducts orientation classes for students about what resources are available for research projects and how to access those resources. Faculty are encouraged to contact AHC staff for assistance in developing projects for their courses using AHC resources or special research sessions for their students. The AHC has also made available teaching lessons using archival materials.
- Discover History: Learn more about how to explore history from primary sources.
- Primary Sources in the Classroom
- Heart Mountain Relocation Center: A lesson using primary source documents to critically analyze the relocation of Japanese Americans to Wyoming.
In addition to providing materials for research, the American Heritage Center sponsors public lectures, conferences, and other events. Exhibits highlighting AHC collecting areas are on display to the public free of charge during regular hours of operation.
- Annual Symposiums:
- Ninth Annual Symposium "Packaging Places: Imagining, Remembering, and Promoting Landscapes," September 2000
- Tenth Annual Symposium "Re-Figuring the Ecological Indian," April 25-26, 2002
- Eleventh Annual Symposium "Owen Wister and the Wild West," September 18-20, 2002.
- Archives Week is an opportunity for people to learn about the rich archival resources available at the American Heritage Center.
- Speaker's Bureau: AHC staff are available at no charge to speak on the AHC and their areas of expertise.
- Travel Grants: The AHC provides travel grants up to $500 to scholars and students who wish to use our collections.
- Traveling Exhibits: Seven photographic exhibits are available throughout the country.
- Women's History Month 2002 Celebration "Thoroughly Modern Millies: Women and the Twenties"
- Wyoming Citizen of the Century: A program designed to honor outstanding Wyoming citizens whose accomplishments shaped twentieth-century Wyoming because of their outstanding contributions in a specific field of endeavor.
- Wyoming History Day: A national and state program for students to study and learn about historical issues, ideas, people and events.
Bernard L. Majewski Research Fellowship
The Bernard L. Majewski Research Fellowship is funded by an endowment provided through the generosity of the late Mrs. Thelma Majewski and is intended to provide research support for a recognized scholar in the history of economic geology and to facilitate the fellow's use of related collections in the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming.
The AHC charges for such services as photocopying, photograph reproduction, duplication of videotapes or audiotapes, and commercial uses of AHC materials. Information about these fees may be found through the University of Wyoming Fee Book.
George A.
Rentschler Room and Lecture
The George A. Rentschler Room of the AHC houses ten western paintings -- nine Henry Farnys and one Frederick Remington -- of New York businessman and western enthusiast George A. Rentschler in a reproduction of his New York City Library.
The George A. Rentschler endowment also sponsors an annual visiting lecture. The 2000 Lecture was delivered by Dwight Pitcaithley, the 2002 Lecture was delivered by Shepard Krech III, and the 2003 Lecture will be delivered by Mark Zwonitzer.
The AHC has made available video recordings of its programs and activities to provide greater access to its lectures and other information. Among the available items are the Rentschler and Majewski Lectures and the AHC introductory videotape.
- All staff of the American Heritage Center
- Faculty members of the American Heritage Center
- Individual home pages
- Contact list of who to call for specific information
Images of events and interior and exterior views of the AHC are available for viewing.
- Heritage Highlights, newsletter of the AHC
Subject Guides, Cheyenne Frontier Days
Posters, Wyoming Historical Calendars,
Hebard Maps and Good Wyoming Stock
- Several subject-specific guides to American Heritage Center collections are available for $5.00 plus $1.50 postage. Further information about our collections can be found through the AHC's online catalog.
Titles currently available:
- Guide to Women's History Resources, 1994 and 1995 editions
- Guide to Environmental and Natural Resource Collections, 2003
- Columns
- No columns
- Guide to Politics and World Affairs, 1994
- Guide to Mining and Petroleum History Resources, 2003
- Columns
- No columns
- Guide to Popular Culture History Resources, 1996
- Guide to Transportation History Resources, 2003
- Columns
- No columns
Reprints of Grace Raymond Hebard's 1928 "History and Romance of Wyoming" maps are now available. The 1993 limited numbered edition is from the original letterpress cut which is part of Hebard's papers at the American Heritage Center. The 1993 maps are hand-colored and sell for $95 plus $5 for postage and handling.
- The book Good Wyoming Stock: The Legacy of Joe and Arlene Watt by Gary L. Christie is available for purchase.
For ordering any of these items, please contact:
Vicki Schuster
307.766.5066
E-mail: vschust@uwyo.edu
American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming, P.O. Box 3924,
Laramie, WY 82071. Phone: 307.766.4114, Fax: 307.766.5511,
E-mail: shelstad@uwyo.edu. Copyright © University of
Wyoming, 1999-2002. Created on May 27, 1999. Last modified on March 12, 2004.