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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Wyoming Senator Lester Hunt was blackmailed by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s. -
Clarence O. Fiske was a jack of all trades. He was a polar explorer, expert in snow forecasting and polar climatology, airplane and helicopter pilot and Navy logistician. -
The Old Santa Fe Trail ran between Missouri and New Mexico and was a regular trade route for goods traveling west. -
Crime and psychological horror writer Robert Bloch turned his attentions to television script writing in the 1960s. His Star Trek scripts were praised for combining traditional elements of the horror genre with science fiction. -
The musical game show Name That Tune made its television debut in 1953. Two contestants vied for prize money as they recognized songs played by a live studio orchestra. -
The Du Pont family, which made a fortune in chemical products, was once one of the most influential and prominent families in the U.S. -
Archives on the Air- The Tower of London, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is visited by millions each year. It houses the British Crown Jewels and was the site of many infamous executions. -
The Wright-Ingraham Institute’s Running Creek Field Station hosted students interested in cross-disciplinary environmental studies in the 1970s. -
The Citizens Committee to Repeal Chinese Exclusion was founded by Pearl Buck and her husband in May of 1943. The committee was successful in getting the Exclusion Act repealed later that same year. -
The Encyclopaedia Britannica was first published in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1768. It became known as the “World’s Greatest Know-It-All.”
