Accessing a Vast Collection
Popular Research Topics
We have compiled a list of popular research topics to spark interest, suggest starting points and highlight select American Heritage Center collections.
AHC Popular Research TopicsCollections by Subject
The American Heritage Center holds collections covering Wyoming, the American West, industry, environment, military history and popular culture. These guides help focus your research.
Finding Aids
Archives West brings together finding aids from archives across the region, including the American Heritage Center, to summarize and describe archival collections.
UW Catalog
The UW Library Catalog pulls together results for research materials from across campus, including what’s at the AHC. It will also let you focus your search to the AHC or Toppan Rare Books Library.
Toppan Rare Books Library
The Toppan Rare Books Library holds more than 50,000 items spanning medieval manuscripts to the 21st century with strengths in the American West, literature, exploration and the book arts.
Anaconda Collection
The Anaconda Geological Documents Collection includes 90 years of global exploration and development records and is one of the world’s most significant collections of economic geological data.
Digital Collections
The American Heritage Center continues to expand its digital collections, digitizing key holdings to support remote research access.
Statement on Potentially Harmful Language and Content Found in Collections
The American Heritage Center aspires to approach all areas of our work in ways that are respectful to those who create, use, and are represented in our collections. For a variety of reasons, however, users may encounter offensive or harmful language or content in some of our finding aids, catalogs, and collection materials.
Note that the AHC does not censor or alter contents of the collections as they provide context and evidence of a time, people, place, or event. Therefore, we encourage users to bring questions and concerns about descriptions in our finding aids to our attention via email or anonymous web-form. For more information, read our full statement.
