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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 the relocation and internment of …
Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado Day
Her gleaming mountains capped with snow, Rolling plain and high plateau, Make the land the best I know– Sunny Colorado! …
Time Machine Tuesday: Uranium Mining
Uranium was discovered in southwestern Colorado in the late nineteenth century. It comes from carnotite ore, which also produces vanadium. …
Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado's Count and Countess
Discoveries of gold in 1858 drew many to what would eventually become Colorado, and in 1858 the two towns of …
Time Machine Tuesday: School District Organization
In 1934, when much of Colorado was still very rural, Colorado had 2,076 school districts. This became an enormous organizational …
Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado Water Study 1978
The 1970s were times of major growth in Colorado, and with it came an increased concern over the conservation of …
Time Machine Tuesday: The Moffat Tunnel
Getting trains through the Rocky Mountains has always been a challenge — steep grades, rocky cliffs, and tall snowdrifts are …
Time Machine Tuesday: Bent’s Fort
If you’re looking for a fun and educational place to take your kids this summer, they will surely enjoy Bent’s …
Time Machine Tuesday: Memorial Day
Before 1972, when Memorial Day began being celebrated on the last Monday in May, Memorial Day was traditionally held on …
Time Machine Tuesday: The Colorado Conservation Commission
“It is also vandalism wantonly to destroy or to permit the destruction of what is beautiful in nature, whether it …
Time Machine Tuesday: The Arkansas River Compact
The Arkansas River Compact is an agreement between the states of Colorado and Kansas to avoid disputes over water usage …
Time Machine Tuesday: Severe Storms
Yesterday the Colorado front range was hit hard with a storm producing heavy rains, hail, lightning, and high winds. The …
Time Machine Tuesday: Public Health in Colorado, 1937
You can learn a lot about American life and culture in past decades by viewing public health reports. Here in …
Time Machine Tuesday: Anti-Discrimination Laws
Most Coloradans are aware that we have laws in our state that prohibit discrimination in places of public accommodation. But …
Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado Rehabilitation Farms
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Farm Security Administration (FSA) sponsored a …
Time Machine Tuesday: Gilpin County
During the Colorado Gold Rush, Gilpin County was one of the leading areas attracting miners and prospectors to attempt to …
Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado and the Great War
This coming Thursday, April 6, will mark the 100th anniversary of America’s entry into World War I. Europe had been …