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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Colonel Murray C. Bernays of the U.S. War Department played an instrumental role in establishing the framework for the Nuremberg Trials, following World War II. -
Bicycling has been a popular pastime in Laramie for more than a century. Elmer Lovejoy, who owned Laramie’s bike shop, also helped found the Laramie Bicycle Club.
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Life in Mexico in the time of Pancho Villa was adventurous and dangerous for Americans. Martin Gaines, who worked for the American Smelting and Refining Company in Mexico during that period came face to face with Pancho Villa and his revolutionaries.
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Tom Wall worked in the Salt Creek Oil Field when it boomed during the beginning of the twentieth century. What had been a rough and tumble patchwork of oil claims became the neat, tidy town of Midwest.
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Philip Babcock was the editor of the third edition of Merriam-Webster’s New International Dictionary. At the time of publication, the dictionary was controversial due to widespread disagreements about the role of the dictionary and the evolution of language.
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Calamity Jane was a larger than life character who roamed the Wild West, acting as a military scout and bullwhacker. She is said to have been the first western woman in the Black Hills during the gold rush days.
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Rock Hudson was an influential actor whose death from AIDS related complications helped raise awareness of the disease.
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Russell Brines was a war correspondent who was interned at the Santo Tomas camp in the Philippines during World War II.
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Preservation of the Arapaho language and culture is the focus on the Arapaho Language and Culture camp, held each summer near Little Wind River.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder is best known for the Little House series of books she wrote describing life as a pioneer family in United States in the 1870s and 80s.
