Archives On The Air
Archives on the Air takes listeners deep into the archives of the University of Wyoming's American Heritage Center. The AHC collects and preserves primary sources and rare books from Wyoming, the Rocky Mountain Region, and select aspects of the American and global past. Voiced by the AHC's Birgit Burke (previously by Molly Marcuse), each new episode of Archives on the Air reveals a fascinating tidbit from the AHC's vast collection.
Latest Episodes
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The 1920 “West Coast Gasoline Famine” was caused by a more than 900 percent increase the number of privately owned cars from 1911 to 1919. -
Wyoming sheep wagons like those built by the Schulte Hardware Company of Casper provided sheep herders with a tiny house on wheels. -
German Lambert Kreimer trained the world’s first guide dog for the blind in 1916 and went on to have a long career in the U.S. as a guide dog trainer. -
Investigative reporter Nellie Bly is best remembered for her record breaking 72-day trip around the world in 1889. -
Investigative reporter Nellie Bly is best remembered for her record-breaking 72-day trip around the world in 1889. -
“Oil on the Brain” was one of dozens of songs written about the Pennsylvania oil boom of the 1860s. -
Ernest Tidyman was one of the top Hollywood screenwriters in the early 1970s. He won an Oscar for The French Connection and an NAACP Image Award for Shaft. -
Gene Vidal, a pioneer of civil aviation, had executive roles with a number of early passenger airlines in the 1920s and 30s, including what was to become TWA, Eastern Airlines, and Northeast Airlines. -
John Alcock and Arthur Brown made the world’s first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight in June of 1919. They flew from St. John’s, Newfoundland to Clifden, Ireland. -
John D. Rockefeller was a petroleum industry tycoon and philanthropist who founded Standard Oil. He became the first American billionaire.
