Category Archives: Interns’ projects

What I Learned Digitizing 100-Year-Old Negatives

Posted on December 29, 2025 by ahcadmin

The American Heritage Center offers internships for University of Wyoming students in various areas. One example is the opportunity to work with Grace Derby, the Center’s Photography Lab Supervisor. Students learn procedures for preserving historic photographic materials. Here, Gabby Castro … Continue reading →

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The Work of Respect: Student Interns Lead Indigenous Collection Review

Posted on November 3, 2025 by lwaggen2

This month is Native American Heritage month, and this year, the American Heritage Center has chosen to highlight two student interns currently working on an internship project with us. Georgie Moss and Darwin St. Clair are working with the Native … Continue reading →

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‘It’s in My Heart’: A Lakota Chief’s Descendant Bridges Past and Present in Wyoming

Posted on December 9, 2024 by ahcadmin

I had the opportunity to listen to many interviews conducted for the American Heritage Center’s Wyoming Voices Project. It’s an oral history project, which means it is a collection and study of historical events and information using recordings of interviews … Continue reading →

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Stan Lee: A Legacy of Learning

Posted on February 19, 2024 by ahcadmin

A-listers, cutting-edge CGI, chaos, quips, and post-credit scenes—that is 21st-century Marvel Entertainment in a nutshell. Churning out one blockbuster production after another, Marvel has established itself as a live-action media mogul persistently setting the pace for family action movies over … Continue reading →

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Why Wyoming? An Investigation into Stan Lee’s Relationship with the American Heritage Center

Posted on December 11, 2023 by ahcadmin

The University of Wyoming’s American Heritage Center is home to thousands of collections. Perhaps one of the most popular, and equally perplexing, collections is the Stan Lee Papers, the official archive of the celebrated author, editor, and Marvel Comics trailblazer. … Continue reading →

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Behind the Scenes at the Cone: Organizing and Processing History

Posted on July 31, 2023 by ahcadmin

Organizing and arranging historical documents can be difficult. And at a world-renowned archive like the one at the University of Wyoming, there are a select number of people who can manage it. One of them is AHC Processing Archivist Roger … Continue reading →

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Behind the Scenes at the Cone: Arranging Items from History

Posted on July 17, 2023 by ahcadmin

In a place like the American Heritage Center (AHC), which houses tens of thousands of historical documents, it can be hard to navigate them and figure out what each collection is. Thankfully, the Center has Jamie Greene, the Manager of … Continue reading →

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Behind the Scenes at the Cone: Intaking History

Posted on July 10, 2023 by ahcadmin

The American Heritage Center (AHC) is home to thousands of different historical materials ranging from letters, diaries, and photos to oral history recordings and original artwork, just to name a few. But how what happens when collections come through the … Continue reading →

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True Crime Obsessed: The Literary Figures Who Contributed to the Craze and the Stories That Feed It

Posted on April 24, 2023 by ahcadmin

With the current plethora of media – documentaries, podcasts, books, and biopics of serial killers – it’s no wonder true crime is so popular. But it isn’t just today’s societies that have this obsession. The love for true crime stories … Continue reading →

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Prints Profoundly Proper: Unveiling the Works of George Cruikshank

Posted on April 17, 2023 by ahcadmin

George Cruikshank (1792-1878) was an English caricaturist known for creating political satire pieces and famous illustrations for notable authors like Charles Dickens. While taking printmaking classes, I came across his name multiple times. This piqued my interest to learn more … Continue reading →

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