Casper College History Professor Everett Akam directs the college's Veritas Honors Institute and teaches U.S. History, Western Civilization, Wyoming History, and American and Wyoming Government at the college. He holds a Ph. D. from the University of Rochester, and is the author of Transnational America: Cultural Pluralist Thought in the Twentieth Century. He also loves to ski. Akam will moderate the panel "Words, Pictures, and the Local Past," at 1:00 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18th at the Fort Caspar Museum, and will be available to sign books afterwards.