Kirsten Arnold

After years in Washington, D.C., Kirsten Arnold escaped D.C. traffic and moved back home to Wyoming where she can enjoy the mountains and open spaces. She holds a Master of Arts in Military Studies, Naval Warfare. In 2018, Kirsten assisted the McCracken Library with the Winchester Manuscript Collections.

About Kirsten Arnold

A Winchester Christmas List: Winchester Stores and Merchandise in the 1920s

December 16, 2018 by Kirsten Arnold

What was on a Christmas wish list from the 1920s? Roller skates? A baseball bat? How about a new refrigerator, or tool set? Or a flashlight to spy on Santa? […]

Japanese-American women walk to their barracks at Heart Mountain Relocation Center. MS 89 Jack Richard Photograph Collection, McCracken Research Library. PN.89.111.21238.3 (detail)

The War at Home: Women in the Workforce and World War II in Wyoming

December 14, 2018 by Kirsten Arnold

War changes the landscape and people, whether on the frontlines or Homefront. World War II not only tested the millions of American men sent to Europe and the Pacific, but […]

M1 Carbine manufactured at Winchester Repeating Arms Co. MS 20 Winchester Repeating Arms Company Archives Collection. P.20.0955

Winchester Goes to War: The M1 Carbine

December 10, 2018 by Kirsten Arnold

The years following World War I were not kind to the Winchester Repeating Arms, Co. The loans taken out during the war to expand their facilities were now due, and […]

Pearl Harbor Attacked! United States Declares War on Japan!

December 6, 2018 by Kirsten Arnold

December 7, 1941, in the early morning hours aboard Ford Island, Hawaii, sailors and Marines stood at morning muster when the buzz of airplanes cut the air. In a blink, […]

The Yanks Are Coming: The Great War and Winchester Repeating Arms

November 12, 2018 by Kirsten Arnold

The eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, for a century now we have worn poppies, lighted lanterns, and recited such solemn lyrics as Flanders’s Field, all […]