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Research Methods

This website was created by using different academic articles, archival research, and images from the AHC (citation below). 

Public Memory/ Rhetoric Resources

"Nostalgia and Its Discontents" by Svetlana Boym

Download 2007.Boym.NostalgiaAndItsDiscontents.pdf

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"Public Memory" by Roger C. Aden

Download 2018.Aden.SageMethods.PublicMemory.ResearchMethods.pdf

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"Seven Types of Forgetting" by Paul Connerton​

Download 2008.Connerton.SevenTypesOfForgetting.pdf

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"What is Rhetoric? A 'Choose Your Own Adventure' Primer" by William Duffy

Download 2023.Duffy.WhatIsRhetoricCYOA.pdf

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Old Main / University of Wyoming Resources

"Those Good Years at Wyoming U." edited by Ralph E. McWhinnie

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"The Wyoming Student", American Heritage Center, Collection #512001, Box #36​

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"The Saga of Old Main's Tower" American Heritage Center Blog Post

https://ahcwyo.org/2017/06/10/old-main-tower/

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"Designing the University of Wyoming: Old Main" American Heritage Center Blog Post

https://ahcwyo.org/2024/02/05/designing-the-university-of-wyoming-old-main/

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​"Designing the University of Wyoming: The Architecture of Agricultural Education" American Heritage Center Blog Post

https://ahcwyo.org/2024/12/16/designing-the-university-of-wyoming-the-architecture-of-agricultural-education/

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​All Photos taken from The American Heritage Center

https://www.uwyo.edu/ahc/collections/index.html 

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For More Information:

The Morrill Act

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/morrill-act â€‹

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The University of Wyoming: Campus

https://www.visitlaramie.org/things-to-do/history/university-of-wyoming-walking-tour/ â€‹â€‹

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Algorithmic Memory: How AI is Rewriting What Societies Choose to Remember or Forget

http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5271673

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