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Category Archives: Biographies and Profiles
Strange, Deranged: The Addams Family
Post contributed by AHC Audiovisual Archivist Jessica LaBozetta The air is crisp, carved jack o’ lanterns are decorating front porch steps, and stores are teeming with candy for trick-or-treaters everywhere. While the celebration of Halloween is rife with classic tales … Continue reading
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Tagged ABC, Addams Family, cult classics, Halloween, Herbert G. Luft Papers, NBC
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Proliferation and Protests – Missiles in Wyoming Over the Decades
Post contributed by AHC Writer Kathryn Billington. Near the end of 1957, Cheyenne’s Warren Air Force Base (WAFB) was chosen to become the nation’s first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) base and home of the Atlas missile. The Cold War nuclear … Continue reading
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Tagged Air Force, Atlas, Cheyenne, ICBM, Minuteman, missiles, MX, Nuclear weapons, Peacekeeper, Philip White papers, Protests, Warren Air Force Base
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Burt C. Buffum, Part Two
Post contributed by AHC Archives Aide Patty Kessler Buffum’s Second Term at the University of Wyoming Buffum left Wyoming in 1900 to serve as the director of the Colorado Agricultural College’s experiment station in Fort Collins. Prior to his departure, the … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Biographies and Profiles, University of Wyoming, Western History, Wyoming
Tagged Burt C. Buffum, Colorado Agricultural College, emmer wheat, Photographic collections, Theodore Roosevelt, University of Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
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Just In Time for America250, a New Book About Wyoming’s History
Post contributed by Paul Flesher, Director of the American Heritage Center Did you ever want to know more about the history of Wyoming—the state we all know and love—in an accessible way? If so, then Wyoming’s History in 76 Objects … Continue reading
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Plumbing the Depths of Adventure in “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea”
Post contributed by AHC Reference Archivist Rob Kelly On September 14th, 1964, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea premiered on television. Created by Irwin Allen as a spinoff of his movie of the same name that had been released … Continue reading
The Morality of A.C. Ivy
Post contributed by Ansley (Crow) Smoll, winner of the AHC’s 2026 Undergraduate Research Award for her project “The Morality of A.C. Ivy: How One Man’s Stance on Medicine Explains the Largest Scam in Cancer History.” History often asks for a … Continue reading
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Tagged A.C. Ivy, Cancer, Cancer Research, Cancer Studies, ethics, Krebiozen, Nuremberg Code
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“The Wrongs Which We Seek to Condemn”: Nuremberg and the Challenge of Justice After Nazi Germany, Part Two
Content Warning: This blogpost features discussion and images related to the Holocaust. Some readers may find this material distressing. This is the second part in a two part series on the Nuremberg Trials. The International Military Tribunal began on November … Continue reading
“The Wrongs Which We Seek to Condemn”: Nuremberg and the Challenge of Justice After Nazi Germany, Part One
Content Warning: This blogpost features discussion and images related to the Holocaust. Some readers may find this material distressing. This is the first part in a two part series on the Nuremberg Trials. In June 2026, I traveled to Germany … Continue reading
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Tagged conspiracy, Law, Murray C. Bernays, Nazi Germany, Nuremberg War Crime Trials
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“The Night of the Hunter” 71st Anniversary
July 26th marked the 71st anniversary of the premier of the horror-thriller The Night of the Hunter based on the novel by Davis Grubb. The film stars Robert Mitchum as the killer conman posing as a preacher, Harry Powell. Powell, … Continue reading