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The AHC is open for research! Visit the links below to plan your visit.
Visit the ArchivEra Public Portal to search the AHC's vast collecting areas or browse.
Get excited for the University of Wyoming 2024 Historic Calendar, now for sale at the University Store, that will be available for sale online soon.
The American Heritage Center 2024 UW Historical Calendar contains historical information about UW that dates to the universities founding in 1886. With the calendar, the AHC aims to share some of the information preserved in its vaults. We hope that this calendar's historical entries and photographs will stir memories while also offering discoveries that are new to you.
Have a look at the UW 2023 Historic Calendar on our website as a teaser to what the new UW 2024 Historic Calendar will offer, or purchase one of the few that are still for sale at the University Store for only $4.50.
Past featured collections:
More than 100 years ago, Grace Raymond Hebard—UW faculty member, administrator, librarian, and Wyoming historian—began collecting the papers and reminiscences of Wyoming’s pioneers. Her research on the history of Wyoming, the West, emigrant trails, and Native Americans became the nucleus for what is known today as the American Heritage Center (AHC). Officially established in 1945, the Center now holds over 90,000 cubic feet of historic documents and artifacts in more than 3500 collections—placing the AHC among the largest non-governmental archives in the nation.
Today, the AHC contains important holdings in numerous areas. Its western history archives include materials on early women’s suffrage and political achievements, native Americans, ranching, politics, authors, and under-documented communities. Other featured collecting areas include transportation (railroad, highway and air travel), mining and energy extraction, entertainment and popular culture (with important collections featuring Hollywood, music, radio, television and the comic book industry), natural resources and the environment, and military history. The AHC also serves as the primary archives for the University of Wyoming. Connect with us on our social media platforms - Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Virmuze, and our blog - where we are #ALWAYS ARCHIVING.
Phone: (307) 766-3756
Fax: (307) 766-5511
Email: ahcref@uwyo.edu
Full Contact Information
Monday - Friday, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Parking in the Centennial Complex lot is free but patrons must register (M-F 8 am-5 pm) at the AHC front desk. Special parking regulations are in effect during game days, please call in advance for more information.
The latest news and press releases from the American Heritage Center.
Centennial Complex
2111 Willet Drive
Laramie, WY 82071
For US Postal Service:
American Heritage Center
University of Wyoming
1000 E. University Ave.
Dept. 3924
Laramie, WY 82071
For UPS & FedEx:
American Heritage Center
University of Wyoming
16th & Gibbon Street
Laramie, WY 82071
Attn: Bill Hopkins
