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Cheney, who was Pres. George H.W. Bush’s secretary of defense at the time, was back in Wyoming to receive UW’s outstanding alumni award. He spoke with WPM about how JFK inspired him to pursue a career in politics, his time at UW and the state of geopolitics.

Laramie’s American Heritage Center hosts its annual Halloween Celebration. This year, the focus expands to worldwide spooky traditions.

A town that still relies on migrant labor grapples with the memory of anti-Chinese violence.

In an executive order earlier this year titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” President Trump directed Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to ensure monuments, memorials, statues and markers “do not contain descriptions, depictions, or other content that inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.”

Tourists are expected to hit the road in the months ahead as Route 66 turns 100 years old.

Wyoming politicians show support while event largely avoids contemporary controversy.

'Strangers in the Land' traces 19th-century violence against Chinese immigrants in Wyoming to contemporary crackdowns.

Wyoming recently upped penalties for defacing petroglyphs and pictographs. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is fast-tracking energy projects where rock art may be.

An exhibit at the American Heritage Center depicts the lives of eight women throughout Western history and how they embodied what it means to be a cowgirl.

The Casper Air Army base played an outsized role in the city during World War II, but did you know it also was a significant part of its Black history? A recently unearthed newspaper column chronicled the Black GIs stationed there, and its discovery shocked the son of its author, who had no idea of his father’s history there.