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Former Members of Congress to visit UW
The American Heritage Center is hosting two former Members of Congress as part of the Congress to Campus program. The program allows college students throughout the U.S. to interact with former Members of Congress by sending bipartisan pairs of former … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan K. Simpson, Alan K. Simpson Institute for Western Politics and Leadership, Brain Baird, congress, politics, Scott Klug, U.S. congress, U.S. political history, western politics and leadership
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Mort Weisinger: Superman’s Superman
Among the American Heritage Center’s comic book industry collections are evidence of the way in which industry insiders attempted to legitimize their business following the comic book moral panic of the 1950s. Fredric Wertham’s 1954 monograph, Seduction of the Innocent … Continue reading
Wyoming Statesman Gale McGee Encounters a Bolivian Coup D’état
Between 1978 and 1980, the country of Bolivia was constantly in a state of crisis. There was a series of military governments that ruled briefly, each overthrown by the next. Rodger McDaniel’s 2018 book, The Man in the Arena: The … Continue reading
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Tagged Bolivia political history, Gale McGee, U.S. political history
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Wyoming Senator Edward Crippa in the McCarthy era
Though a small collection, the Edward D. Crippa papers are of historical interest. Crippa (1899-1960), who had served in World War I and been Wyoming state highway commissioner from 1941 to 1947, was appointed to represent Wyoming in the U.S. … Continue reading