The University of Utah American West Center

The First Center in the Nation devoted to the Interdisciplinary Study of the American West
The American West Center has been producing innovative community-engaged scholarship and training students as public historians for nearly half a century. If you would like to learn more about the AWC projects featured above, training in oral history, digital history, and other public history methods, or our other activities -- including our contract research for the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and a number of American Indian Nations -- contact us at 801-581-7611.

   

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Occupy Salt Lake

Occupy Salt Lake is the American West Center’s newest Oral History Project. The Center is presently conducting interviews with members of this grassroots movement. Check out all of the Center’s projects under “Oral Histories.”

Support the Polio Oral History Project

Since our new Polio Oral History Project started with limited funding, and since the response to the project has been phenomenal, we find ourselves currently unable to record the stories of all of the Polio survivors that have contacted us.  These stories are important to medical clinicians, historians, and the general public who know far too little about Polio's continuing presence in our communities.   If you'd like to help us expand our Polio project, please use the "Giving to the Center" button above to donate.  

 

News and Announcements

Wo/Men at Work | Created by the American West Center and Marriott Library's Book Arts Program and produced at the Red Butte Press, Wo/Men at Work is a letterpress-printed, hand-bound imprint of the Book Arts Program at the University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library. Its collaborative, handmade production is a testament to its content, which presents multiple perspectives on labor in the American West. Click here to watch the making of Wo/Men at Work!
Click here to order Wo/Men at Work

[read more] More information at Watch Video Mar 23, 2012