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Explore online

Internet Resources for You & Your Students

The sites listed here provide fun and helpful curriculum-based resources for Colorado history and social studies educators and students.

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Biographies of Notable Coloradans

Read up on the historical figures that shaped the history of Colorado and the West with articles written just for kids and students.

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Teaching with Primary Sources

Annotated resource sets on Colorado history created by teachers.

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Children's Books on Colorado History
A list of biographies, fiction, non-fiction and textbooks on Colorado's history geared for kids.
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Experience Colorado History

Experience Colorado History with this interactive timeline.

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Byron White lecture on C-SPAN

Watch Dennis Hutchinson, a speaker in History Colorado's Lecture Series, talk about Colorado's own Byron White, a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. and college football star.

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Destination Freedom: the Freedom Rides Radio Show

Listen to a discussion on race and other issues that face our nation. 

Photo copyright Corbis.

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Get Homework & Research Help

AskColorado can help your students get started with an assignment or project and help you with research.

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Center for Education in Law & Democracy

Visit a directory of Civic Education programs in Colorado.

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Doing History

Step out of your world and into the past. Take a journey into Colorado's history in the company of people who lived it.

Upcoming Events

LEGOrado - LEGO Drive & Collection
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 12am - Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 12am

History Colorado needs your donation of LEGOs!

Educator Open House at History Colorado
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 6pm - 8pm

Come see the new History Colorado Center at our Educator Open House on May 16, 2012 from 6-8pm! 

Contacts for Educators

Walking tours (Explore Denver)
April Legg, 303-866-4688    

History Take Out (Moving Day, Western Work)
Laura Douglas, 303-866-2492
 

Old Stories, New Voices
Bobbe Hultin
, 303-866-4641

Artifact kits, trunks, lectures, and other tours
Cheryl Graham, 303-866-4686

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