Autry National Center

Overview

Institute for the Study of the American West

The Institute for the Study of the American West promotes research and educational activities, encourages the development of path breaking scholarship, and reaches a broad audience through programs and publications.

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  Autry Library

  Significant book, serial, archival and audio-visual collections about the historical and the mythical west are at the heart of the Autry Library collection.

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  Braun Research Library

  The Braun Research Library, located at the Southwest Museum of the American Indian, is one of the nation’s most important library and archive collections related to American Indians.

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  Women of the West

  The Women of the West project at the Autry supports programs, exhibitions, collections, research, and education dedicated to diverse women’s experiences in the West.

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  Programs

  Programs produces a wide variety of lectures, workshops, symposia, plays, concerts, film series, artist demonstrations, and family festivals that augment our exhibitions and galleries.

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  Prizes

  The Institute currently offers three awards - the Maverick Prize, the Autry Public History Prize, and the Butcher Scholar Award.

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  Fellowships

  The Institute libraries annually award research fellowships to support scholarly projects in all areas of the study of the peoples and cultures of the American West.

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  Collections

  The Autry’s large museum collections about include art, artifacts, archaeological materials, photographs, manuscript collections, maps, books, sound recordings, and ephemera. Museum collections are available to researchers through the Institute libraries by application.