History

The Cody Enterprise dives into the life and legacy of Liz Byrd, Wyoming’s first Black legislator, who would have turned 100 on April 20.

On June 25th, 1876, Northern Arapaho, Cheyenne and Lakota warriors defeated the U.S. 7th Cavalry in southeast Montana. The exhibit brings together artwork from survivors of the battle as well as contemporary depictions of the event.

A coalition of public lands advocates and historians has filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration, accusing it of censoring American history and science at national parks, including several in the Mountain West.

The Life Between The Rails oral history project tells the stories of Union Pacific employees from their perspective. These stories are gathered and displayed for the public to experience at the American Heritage Center.

The National Park Service started free entry days in 2009. The selection and number of days have varied, but Martin Luther King Jr. Day has been on the list ever since 2011.

ReStorying the West is a three-year project, aiming to collect stories from Wyomingites throughout Wyoming. University of Wyoming Professor Nancy Small discusses the project’s origin, progress, and future.

Cheney, who was Pres. George H.W. Bush’s secretary of defense at the time, was back in Wyoming to receive UW’s outstanding alumni award. He spoke with WPM about how JFK inspired him to pursue a career in politics, his time at UW and the state of geopolitics.

Laramie’s American Heritage Center hosts its annual Halloween Celebration. This year, the focus expands to worldwide spooky traditions.

A town that still relies on migrant labor grapples with the memory of anti-Chinese violence.

In an executive order earlier this year titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” President Trump directed Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to ensure monuments, memorials, statues and markers “do not contain descriptions, depictions, or other content that inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.”