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Tag Archives: Oral History
The Nat King Cole They Knew
When Nat Cole was a teenager in Chicago, he couldn’t always afford to get into the clubs where the great jazz pianists played. So he found another way in. His first wife, Nadine, recalled that he would slip around to the alley behind the … Continue reading
Krazy George and the Wave
This story expands on “‘From Sparti and His Spear to Pete and His Pistol,” a WyoHistory.org article by University Archivist John Waggener that tells the story of the first Pistol Pete mascot, Don Bogdan. When Don Bogdan handed his San … Continue reading
Big News: We’re Launching an Education and Outreach Department!
We have some really exciting news to share—the American Heritage Center is creating a new Education and Outreach Department. If you’ve been following along with us, you know we’ve always been about more than just preserving collections. We want people … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibits, Wyoming
Tagged Archives, Brie Blasi, Community Engagement, Current Exhibits, Education and Outreach Department, Educational Programs, Life Between the Rails, New Department, Oral History, Public History, Public Programs, Railroad History, School Programs, The West is Waiting, Union Pacific Railroad, Wyoming Archives
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Following the Manito Trail: New Mexicans of the Cowboy State
In honor of the beginning of this year’s National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15th – October 15th), today we look at the history of the Manito Trail and the interdisciplinary Following the Manito Trail exhibit that tells its story. As … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibits, Wyoming
Tagged Arborglyphs, Cheyenne, Community memory, Exhibits, Following the Manito Trail, Hispanic Heritage, Interstate 25, laramie, Latino/Latina studies, Local history, Manitas, Manitos, Mexican-American history, Migration patterns, National Hispanic Heritage Month, New Mexican culture, Oral History, Riverton, Sheepherding, Sierra Madre Mountains
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Territory Girl, Statehood Pioneer: Mary Godat Bellamy’s Wyoming Story
Imagine hearing the actual voice of someone who watched Civil War soldiers march past her childhood home, then lived to see the atomic age. That’s exactly what you can experience with Mary Godat Bellamy’s 1947 recordings—a remarkable audio document from … Continue reading
Posted in Wyoming
Tagged audio recordings, Civil War memories, Digitized collections, Fort Sanders, Frontier Life, Laramie Wyoming, Lola Homsher, Mary Godat Bellamy, Oral History, Oral History Interviews, SoundScribr, Women in Politics, women's suffrage, WyoHistory.org, Wyoming Legislature, Wyoming Pioneers, Wyoming Statehood Day, Wyoming Territory
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The Wyoming Quilt Project: Preserving History Through Quilts
In 1994, a small but dedicated group of Wyoming women came together to start documenting the state’s quilts. The Wyoming Quilt Project was created with a mission of photographing and recording details about Wyoming’s quilts—those that were made in the … Continue reading
Posted in American Heritage Center, Women's History, Wyoming
Tagged Community History, Family Heirlooms, Folk Art, Great Depression, Harper Pachel, Historical Documentation, Historical records, Material Culture, Oral History, quilting, Sonya Meyer, Tammy Au-France, Textile Preservation, Women's Initiatives, Wyoming Quilt Project
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Revitalizing Indigenous Languages at the Archive: The American Heritage Center and the Arapaho Language
November marks Native American Heritage Month, a time to honor the rich cultures, traditions, and histories of Native communities. In celebration, the American Heritage Center is spotlighting collections that support the revitalization of Indigenous languages, particularly the Arapaho language, through … Continue reading
Posted in Archives
Tagged American Philosophical Society, Arapaho language, archival preservation, Bambi (1994 Arapaho version), California Language Archive, Cultural Preservation, Digitization, Disney, Dr. Steve Greymoming, Indigenous education, Indigenous language archives, Indigenous Language Digital Archive, Indigenous Languages and the Promise of Archives, Indigenous Peoples, John Roberts, Language documentation, Language preservation, Language revitalization, Linguistic heritage, Missionary records, Native American Heritage month, Oral History, Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, Wyoming Folklife Archive, Zdeněk Salzmann
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