Louisville Public Library Celebrates Making Local Newspaper Available Online Through CHNC
It’s very rewarding to preserve your local history and provide access to it for your…
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Time Machine Tuesday: A Colorado Booklist from 1968
What were the popular books on Colorado, and by Colorado authors, half a century ago? …
Colorado Governors: Samuel Elbert
Colorado’s highest mountain bears the name of Samuel H. Elbert, territorial governor of Colorado from…
Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado’s Poet Laureates
Was Colorado the first state to have a poet laureate? It depends on who you…
CHNC News! Historic African American Newspapers Now Available
In a few short years CHNC has grown tremendously and made some exciting changes. We…
Vote for Colorado’s Most Significant Artifact
Now through November 17, you can vote for your favorite historic Colorado artifact or document…
Upping your Engagement – Getting More From the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection
Colorado has an interesting and colorful history. Whether you are interested in our mining past,…
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…
Colorado’s Labor History
This coming Monday is Labor Day. Because so much of Colorado’s development was tied in…
Time Machine Tuesday: Teaching Colorado History
Anybody who attended elementary school in Colorado remembers learning about the state’s history — the…
The Buildings of Auraria
The Auraria Higher Education Center (or Auraria Campus, as it is often known) is quite…
Time Machine Tuesday: Highway Safety
Certainly a lot has changed in the last fifty years regarding vehicle safety! Consider this…
Time Machine Tuesday: Increasing Farm Production in Wartime
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, ever-increasing numbers of Americans were…
Time Machine Tuesday: Amache Relocation Center and Colorado’s Japanese Americans
In February 1942, during the height of WWII, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, ordering…
Colorado Governors: Edward McCook
Edward Moody McCook served two non-consecutive terms as territorial governor. Originally from Ohio, McCook had…
Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado Day
Her gleaming mountains capped with snow, Rolling plain and high plateau, Make the land the…