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Archiving 2020: A Difficult Year

March 1, 2021 / Laurie Dunklee / History, National Issues, Video / No Comments

“2020 was a rough year for a lot of people, with big events that had an impact on everybody,” says James Peterson, assistant curator for artifacts at the History Colorado Center museum.

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Democracy: Something We’re Working Toward and Aspiring to

February 1, 2021 / Mary Jo Brooks / History, National Issues, Politics, Schools/Education / No Comments

The Capitol siege, followed by impeachment, and inauguration of a new president have provided social studies teachers and their students with plenty of history-in-the-making moments to observe, question, and assess.

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2021 Stock Show: Memories Only

January 1, 2021 / Dick Kreck / Denver News, Events, History / No Comments

There won’t be any little piggies or cute bunnies or a stick-horse rodeo this year. In fact, there won’t be a National Western Stock Show (NWSS) and Rodeo. For only the second time in the event’s 115-year history it has been cancelled, this time due to the corona virus pandemic.

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Books by Local Authors

January 1, 2021 / By Carol Roberts with information about the books provided by the authors / Arts/Culture, Families, History, Psychology/Self-Help / No Comments

Roger Kahn’s “How Crested Butte Became a Tourist Town: Drugs, Sex, Sports, Arts and Social Conflict,” Zoe Argento’s “Isolation Island: A Pandemic Story,” and Kathryn Haber’s “Fear Less, Love More.”

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Denver Art Museum: Frida, Diego, and a Who’s Who of Mexican Greats

November 1, 2020 / Martina Will, PhD / Arts/Culture, History / No Comments

The Denver Art Museum’s “Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism” exhibit, conveys some of the power of Kahlo’s personality. The exhibit is from the private collection of Jacques and Natasha Gelman. Twenty of Kahlo’s works complement 130 others that either center on her or add context and understanding to her life and times.

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Why Reparations? Paying for Our Nation’s “Original Sin”

August 1, 2020 / Martina Will, PhD / Community Issues, History, National Issues, Racial Issues, State Issues / 4 Comments

Harold Fields says of reparations: “We have pipes that are deep underneath these buildings and underneath our streets. The pipes are decaying, they’re old. They’re leaking, and they are only distributing resources to certain places. You’ve got to be able to dig up those pipes and re-do the system. It’s not a matter of changing the washers on faucets or putting in a new shower head, but changing the system.”

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Walking Through History With Papa Ray

July 1, 2020 / Martina Will, PhD / History, People / No Comments

Burns, who will celebrate his 100th birthday on August 5th of this year, usually moves down the sidewalk with one of the many neighbors who affectionately refer to him as “Papa Ray.”

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How is living through a pandemic like living through a war?

June 1, 2020 / Julie Peterson, History Colorado Center / Community Issues, History / No Comments

As we confront uncertainty, fear, and even death in the coronavirus pandemic, we know Coloradans experienced similar traumas in World Wars I and II. Then, the community came together to face a common enemy—but also fell prey to xenophobia and racism as they looked for someone to blame.

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The Power of Language

April 1, 2020 / Martina Will, PhD / History / No Comments

How can one exert power through language? And how does language empower some and disempower others?

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Two Strikes Against Her and She Persisted: The Enduring Legacy of Dr. Justina Ford

March 1, 2020 / Martina Will, PhD / History, People / No Comments

Ford could speak between 8 and 11 languages and dialects and delivered over 7,000 babies, according to Sylvia Lambe, who serves on the advisory board of the Black American West Museum and Heritage Center.

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