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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Award winning foreign correspondent and journalist Irene Kuhn devoted more than seventy years of her life to reporting on and commentating about the news. -
The American Women radio broadcast during World War II encouraged women to join the workforce.
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Folk singers Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie published songs in the monthly newsletter People’s Songs, which encouraged people to join in mass singing of labor and union songs after World War II.
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Austrian-American filmmaker Fritz Lang was one of the pioneers of film noir cinema in Germany in the 1920s. He emigrated to the U.S. in the 1930s, where he continued his career as a director and screenwriter.
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Frank W. Mondell served as Wyoming’s congressman in the U.S. House of Representatives for 24 years. He got his start in politics as the mayor of Newcastle, Wyoming.
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June Vanleer Williams was an actress and journalist in the 1960s and 70s. She befriended the coach of the Harlem Globetrotters and collected postcards from his travels around the world.
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Trumpeter Joe Colling accompanied many early films, performing live for silent films and recording movie scores as film technology advanced during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
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Broadcaster Tommy Cowan spent nearly 40 years on the air with WNYC, which was the radio station owned and operated by New York City.
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Democrat Lester C. Hunt was a successful Wyoming Secretary of State, Wyoming’s 19th governor and a U.S. Senator.
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Bob Jairell, known as the “snowman”, worked on controlling blowing snow for more than 36 years as part of the U.S. Forest Service. His expertise helped ranchers dealing with frigid conditions across Wyoming and beyond.
