Time Machine Tuesday: Katherine Craig, Colorado Educator
A few years ago, a couple dozen paintings of Colorado governors and other state officials…
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Time Machine Tuesday: Students Debate the Boulder Dam
In the fall of 1927, the University of Colorado announced the topic for that year’s…
Time Machine Tuesday: Judge Ben Lindsey and the Juvenile Court
The early twentieth century was an era of social reform in the United States. The…
Time Machine Tuesday: Thanksgiving Songs and Poems
A century ago the Colorado Superintendent of Public Instruction published a series of “holiday books”…
Time Machine Tuesday: History of Term Limits in Colorado
In the 143 years that Colorado has been a state, the laws regarding terms of…
Time Machine Tuesday: Recovering from the Dust Bowl
In the midst of the Great Depression, farmers on Colorado’s eastern plains also had to…
Time Machine Tuesday: Mine Accidents and Safety
Explosions. Cave-ins. Blasting accidents. Gas leaks. Floods. Carbon monoxide. In the nineteenth and early twentieth…
Time Machine Tuesday: The Santa Fe Trail
During the nineteenth century the Santa Fe Trail played an important role in the westward…
Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado Transportation Through the Years
New to our library’s digital collection are two historical publications that tell the story of…
Time Machine Tuesday: Learning to Drive in 1936
Learning to drive has long been one of the milestones that teenagers most look forward…
Time Machine Tuesday: Denver Mountain Parks
Trick question: how can you be in Denver and in the mountains at the same…
Time Machine Tuesday: Denver’s Freeways That Were Never Built
It was the automobile age…postwar prosperity, new technologies, mass production, and innovations in design meant…
Time Machine Tuesday: Homesteading on the Great Plains
Today, Colorado is experiencing record growth in its urban areas. But a century ago, many…
Time Machine Tuesday: Ice Cream!
Ice cream — it’s one of America’s favorite summer traditions. July is National Ice Cream…
Time Machine Tuesday: Lakewood Turns 50
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Lakewood’s incorporation as a city, but its history…
Time Machine Tuesday: Archaeology of Southwestern Colorado
In the summer of 1921, one of Colorado’s leading archaeologists, Jean Allard Jeançon, set out…
Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado Chautauqua
In the late nineteenth century, the Chautauqua movement swept the country, including Colorado — establishing…
Time Machine Tuesday: Black Canyon of the Gunnison
Sheer cliffs, deep chasms, and dark shadows make the 2,000-foot-deep Black Canyon of the Gunnison…
Time Machine Tuesday: Dinosaur Discoveries
Just about everyone is familiar with Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Diplodocus, Allosaurus, and Tyrannosaurus rex. But how…
Time Machine Tuesday: 1984 Floods and Landslides
In May and June of 1984, unseasonably warm temperatures caused that winter’s heavy snowfalls to…