Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado Historic Markers
Whether you’re on a road trip or exploring your own neighborhood, roadside markers and “point…
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Time Machine Tuesday: College and University Histories on Film
Over the past couple of years several of Colorado’s public higher educational institutions have celebrated…
Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado License Plates
Did you know that before the introduction of license plate validation stickers in 1976, you…
Time Machine Tuesday: State of the State Speeches
The 2018 legislative session begins tomorrow, and traditionally the first week of the session includes…
Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado Farming During the Great War
A few months ago I wrote a Time Machine Tuesday feature about the state’s efforts…
Time Machine Tuesday: Christmas Traditions at Palmer Lake
One of Colorado’s most beloved Christmas traditions is the Yule Log Ceremony held every year…
Time Machine Tuesday: Typhoid Epidemic
Today the Denver Post published a list of the leading causes of death in Colorado. …
Time Machine Tuesday: Tracking Colorado’s Climate
It’s been a mild and dry November and December — but is this unusual for…
Time Machine Tuesday: Silas Soule and the Sand Creek Massacre
Tomorrow, November 29, is the 153rd anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre. That morning, approximately 675…
Time Machine Tuesday: Researching Past Colorado Legislators
Our library receives many questions about finding biographical information on state legislators from the past. Many…
Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado Aviation
In honor of National Aviation History Month, this week’s post takes a look at the…
Time Machine Tuesday: A Colorado Booklist from 1968
What were the popular books on Colorado, and by Colorado authors, half a century ago? …
Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado's Bat Caves
Fifteen years ago the Colorado Division of Wildlife and the CSU Natural Heritage Program conducted…
Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado’s Poet Laureates
Was Colorado the first state to have a poet laureate? It depends on who you…
Time Machine Tuesday: Financing Public Schools in the Early 20th Century
In 1917, it cost a yearly average of $69.00 per pupil to educate Colorado’s public…
Time Machine Tuesday: An Economic Profile of Denver in 1974
Recently the Denver metro area has been experiencing unprecedented economic activity and growth, with hundreds…
Time Machine Tuesday: The Lost Town of Caribou, Colorado
It can’t really be called a ghost town, because there’s almost nothing left to mark…
Time Machine Tuesday: Rydberg's Flora
One of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century America’s greatest botanists extensively studied the flora of Colorado,…
Time Machine Tuesday: The Colorado Agricultural Society
Colorado Territory had barely been established when a group of leading farmers, agriculturalists, and promoters…
Time Machine Tuesday: Trappers, Traders and Mountain Men
In the early decades of the nineteenth century, French, English, and American fur trappers came…