History

UW Professor, Paul Flesher, was part of an excavation team that unearthed a pair of stunning mosaics decorating the floor of a fifth century synagogue in Lower Galilee.

Original artwork honoring the University of Wyoming’s 1943 NCAA Basketball Championship are currently available for purchase at NCAA.com/Art. The artwork depicts Wyoming basketball legends Kenny Sailors and Everett Shelton and was commissioned by the NCAA for this past year’s 75th Anniversary Celebration of March Madness.

The Wyoming Historical Society will be holding their annual trek through Sundance and Crook County June 14th - 16th.

The small Colorado town of Virginia Dale, just 30 miles south of Laramie on Highway 287, will be hosting a 151st Anniversary celebration for the Virginia Dale Stage Station, a historic building that still stands today.

The annual Butch Cassidy Celebration will be held June 8th at the one jail where the infamous outlaw did time, the Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site in Laramie.

A website dedicated to the History of Wyoming is hoping to grab the attention of "everyone" with its official roll-out.

University of Wyoming historian Phil Roberts and retired Geography Professor Larry Ostresh will be among panelists during a film screening and discussion of the PBS documentary, “End of Track,” Tuesday, Feb. 26, at 7 p.m. at the historic railroad depot in Laramie.

The Albany County Historical Society is holding a special meeting to host a book signing of "University of Wyoming," a pictorial book published as part of Arcadia Publishing's "Campus History Series."