American Heritage Center
Centennial Complex
2111 Willet Drive
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: (307) 766-4114
Email: ahcref@uwyo.edu
Please see our full list of accommodations to help our patrons during our temporary closures.
Located on the fourth floor of the American Heritage Center, the Reading Room is open to members of the faculty, students, and staff of the University of Wyoming as well as visiting scholars, students, and members of the public.
Major areas of collecting include Wyoming and the American West, the mining and petroleum industries, environment and natural resources, journalism, military history, transportation, the history of books, and 20th century entertainment such as popular music, radio, television, and film.
AHC collections go beyond Wyoming's or the region's borders and support a wide range of research and teaching activities in the humanities, sciences, arts, business, and education. Total manuscripts and archives holdings are roughly 90,000 cubic feet (or nearly 17 miles) of material.
The American Heritage Center Reading Room will re-open for on-site research, by approved pre-appointment only, for UW employees and students beginning on January 25.
We will have limited hours (10-4, weekdays only), limited seating (6 researchers maximum), and additional rules will be in place. Masks and social distancing are required, as is a daily “Green Card” pass from the Covid Pass website.
Visitors to the Reading Room will fill out the application for on-site appointments.
A re-opening plan for patrons outside of UW is being developed. Please watch for these announcements.
The AHC works to balance safety and access during this unprecedented time. All on-site access/procedures are subject to change as necessary and to conform UW Covid-19 policies.
The AHC is part of the University of Wyoming, and abides by the UW Covid guidelines. Please follow these links to UW's policy and plans:
The American Heritage Center supports a variety of scholarly activities through the grants and fellowships we offer. For more information please see our grants and fellowships page.
The American Heritage Center takes pride in supporting the educational mission of the University of Wyoming and offers research, bibliographic and course development assistance to instructors and students.
We welcome instructors to bring classes to the American Heritage Center and our staff is eager to work with instructors to make every class visit an exciting and productive experience.
Pay for AHC products and services with an invoice number.
Pay for Anaconda Collection memberships, Anaconda scanning services, etc.
Use this form to contact the Reference department with a research request.
If you have used AHC resources in a published work, and would like to inform the AHC of this, as well as have the work featured on our Products of Research page, please use this form.
Use this form to submit a request for a digital or photographic reproduction of material from AHC collections.
Please use this form to request suitable collections to digitize in whole or part for access in our digital collections repository.
Appointments are recommended for casual visitors; but required for any class or group visits, as well as individual researchers needing to see specific items. Please contact reference services to make an appointment at 307-766-3756 or ahcref@uwyo.edu.
American Heritage Center
Centennial Complex
2111 Willet Drive
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: (307) 766-4114
Email: ahcref@uwyo.edu