Category Archives: University of Wyoming history

Sports, Recreation, and Leisure

Posted on June 25, 2014 by

Sports, recreation, and leisure are so entwined with life in American and the human experience itself, it should not be surprising that many of the collections held at the American Heritage Center contain at least some information related to these … Continue reading →

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Teaching and Learning Geology at UW: Professor Samuel H. Knight

Posted on February 7, 2014 by

University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center (AHC) has digitized and made accessible online over 3,200 photographs, documents, and 6 films documenting the University of Wyoming science camps and a geology lecture (Chalk Talk) that S.H. Knight gave in the 1960s … Continue reading →

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Forty Years of Diversity at UW

Posted on January 7, 2014 by

My name is Chelsea Nelson, and I am the new Carlson Intern at the University of Wyoming American Heritage Center. My job is to organize, categorize, and describe collections related to the College of Arts and Sciences so that researchers can … Continue reading →

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A Whole New Ball Game: The UW Intercollegiate Athletics Collection

Posted on May 2, 2013 by

Have you ever wanted to relive a special moment in Cowboy or Cowgirl sports history? Such as the 1988 football game of UW vs. Air Force, when UW came back and won? Or perhaps the 2007 NIT championship game of … Continue reading →

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The AHC’s Carlson Intern sheds some light on the process of processing!

Posted on March 7, 2013 by

Hello there!  My name is Renee Barrera and I am a first year history graduate student and this past August I had the pleasure of being hired as the Carlson Intern at the American Heritage Center. The Carlson Internship is … Continue reading →

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A “Day” in the Life: A Conversation with Laura Uglean Jackson, University Archivist

Posted on October 29, 2012 by

As the University Archivist, what do you spend the bulk of your day doing? This is a somewhat difficult question for me to answer because I have so many other responsibilities besides being the university archivist.  I am also a … Continue reading →

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Happy Mole Day!

Posted on October 23, 2012 by

Today between 6:02 am to 6:02 pm, science teachers around the nation are celebrating Avogadro’s number (6.02 x 1023), the approximate number of particles in one mole of a substance.  In chemistry a mole is a unit of measurement for … Continue reading →

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