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CHNC News: Would You Work Here?

Many people know that community newspapers provide a wealth of historic information such as birth and wedding announcements, obituaries, general …

Colorado Historic Newspapers

Leigh Jeremias

November 27, 2017

Time Machine Tuesday: Researching Past Colorado Legislators

Our library receives many questions about finding biographical information on state legislators from the past. Many of these questions are geneological …

Colorado State Publications Blog

Amy Zimmer

November 21, 2017

Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado Aviation

In honor of National Aviation History Month, this week’s post takes a look at the state of aviation in Colorado …

Colorado State Publications Blog

Amy Zimmer

November 14, 2017

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 community, and we love it …

Colorado Historic Newspapers

Regan Harper

November 11, 2017

Time Machine Tuesday: A Colorado Booklist from 1968

What were the popular books on Colorado, and by Colorado authors, half a century ago?  Find out by viewing the …

Colorado State Publications Blog

Amy Zimmer

November 7, 2017

Colorado Governors: Samuel Elbert

Colorado’s highest mountain bears the name of Samuel H. Elbert, territorial governor of Colorado from 1873-74.  Elbert County is also …

Colorado State Publications Blog

Amy Zimmer

October 26, 2017

Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado’s Poet Laureates

Was Colorado the first state to have a poet laureate?  It depends on who you ask.  Alice Polk Hill, Colorado’s …

Colorado State Publications Blog

Amy Zimmer

October 24, 2017

CHNC News! Historic African American Newspapers Now Available

In a few short years CHNC has grown tremendously and made some exciting changes.  We have a new and improved …

Colorado Historic Newspapers

Leigh Jeremias

October 23, 2017

Vote for Colorado’s Most Significant Artifact

Now through November 17, you can vote for your favorite historic Colorado artifact or document as part of the Colorado …

Colorado State Publications Blog

Amy Zimmer

October 20, 2017

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, railroad development and growth, livestock …

Colorado Historic Newspapers

Regan Harper

October 15, 2017

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 of people moving here each …

Colorado State Publications Blog

Amy Zimmer

October 10, 2017

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 the location of Caribou, Colorado, …

Colorado State Publications Blog

Amy Zimmer

October 3, 2017

Time Machine Tuesday: Rydberg's Flora

One of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century America’s greatest botanists extensively studied the flora of Colorado, and left us what is …

Colorado State Publications Blog

Amy Zimmer

September 26, 2017

Time Machine Tuesday: The Colorado Agricultural Society

Colorado Territory had barely been established when a group of leading farmers, agriculturalists, and promoters got together and formed the …

Colorado State Publications Blog

Amy Zimmer

September 19, 2017

Time Machine Tuesday: Trappers, Traders and Mountain Men

In the early decades of the nineteenth century, French, English, and American fur trappers came to Colorado, living a rugged …

Colorado State Publications Blog

Amy Zimmer

September 12, 2017

Colorado’s Labor History

This coming Monday is Labor Day.  Because so much of Colorado’s development was tied in with mining, transportation, and other …

Colorado State Publications Blog

Amy Zimmer

August 31, 2017

Time Machine Tuesday: Teaching Colorado History

Anybody who attended elementary school in Colorado remembers learning about the state’s history — the colorful characters, the miners, the …

Colorado State Publications Blog

Amy Zimmer

August 29, 2017

The Buildings of Auraria

The Auraria Higher Education Center (or Auraria Campus, as it is often known) is quite unique among Colorado’s college campuses.  …

Colorado State Publications Blog

Amy Zimmer

August 24, 2017

Time Machine Tuesday: Highway Safety

Certainly a lot has changed in the last fifty years regarding vehicle safety!  Consider this excerpt from Highway Safety in …

Colorado State Publications Blog

Amy Zimmer

August 22, 2017

Time Machine Tuesday: Increasing Farm Production in Wartime

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, ever-increasing numbers of Americans were joining the armed forces.  Whether …

Colorado State Publications Blog

Amy Zimmer

August 15, 2017

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