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The Colorado Magazine gives voice to writers who share our passion for the past and the Centennial State.

  • Map of Mexico showing the modern southwest United States and as far north and east as Missouri. Different colors show the states of 1840s Mexico

    Remarks on Opening the Display of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    These opening remarks were given by History Colorado's Executive Director Dawn DiPrince on February 3rd, 2023, to commemorate the opening of the display of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo at the History Colorado Center in Denver.

  • Photo of a member of museum staff, carefully caring for the pages of a document that is on display in the Zoom In exhibition. The staff member wears blue nitril gloves to handle the pages of the document.

    Busy Behind the Scenes

    Caring for collection items never stops, even in core exhibitions at the History Colorado Center.

  • MWA Tuberculosis Sanatorium

    All-American Ruins

    Discovering the meaning of anemoia and reawakening the healing power of abandoned places.

  • Photo of a book sitting on an ironing board, next to an antique iron and a white garment. Titled "The Girl Who Dared to Defy: Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver," the cover is a black and white image of a female who wears a dark colored dress over which a long white bibbed apron is worn. She is standing in front of a table with a shallow small bowl and what appears to be a rectangular cooking pan. Although only part of her face is seen, she looks down at an open book she holds in her hands.

    The Girl Who Dared to Defy: Jane Streets and the Rebel Maids of Denver

    The 16th Biennial Barbara Sudler Award recognizes the best work of nonfiction or fiction on a western American subject by a woman author.

  • Photo of activists standing in front of a brick building. There is a group of a few dozen people in this image, standing in small groups talking with each other, looking around. A few people in the front carry a sign made of black fabric. The sign says "NO CORPORATE PRIDE" painted in colorful letters, and a large transgender symbol (a pictogram consisting of a circle with an arrow sprouting from the top-right side, a cross at the bottom, and a stroked arrow at the top) painted in white in the lower corner.

    Continuing Colorado’s LGBTQ+ Revolution

    A queer perspective on History Colorado’s LGBTQ+ resources and the Rainbows & Revolutions exhibition

  • Saving the Soule-Cramer Letters

    Editor’s note: This article was published in the November / December issue of Colorado Heritage in 2014. It is reprinted here as it first appeared. Copies and audio recordings of the Soule-Cramer letters are featured in History Colorado’s exhibition, The Sand Creek Massacre: The Betrayal that Changed Cheyenne and Arapaho People Forever.

  • Photo looking down upon a long dining table made of dark brown wood and decorated with a long table runner down the center consisting of wide green and red stripes divided by a thin black stripe of fabric. Three people in colorful attire sit around the table, passing dishes of food and serving some onto plates. Dishes of greens, cornbread, green beans, sliced bread, and other foods are being shared.

    Habari Gani? (Or, What’s the News?)

    Celebrating family, community, and culture, Kwanzaa embraces seven days of reflection and guiding principles.

  • A tipi at sunset. Over the tipi fly two flags: the flag of the United States, and the white flag of peace.

    The Sand Creek Massacre Syllabus

    The atrocities of the Sand Creek Massacre should be reminders to all of us that dehumanization and fear have led to some of the darkest moments in our history. But the Cheyenne and Arapaho people are not defined by the massacre, even though they live with the scars it left behind. They are modern people who have invited Coloradans to learn more about the massacre, and also about their rich Tribal histories and strong traditions that live on today. 

    This syllabus is meant to help all of us accept that invitation. It is a selection of resources that members of the three Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes have suggested and helped produce. It reflects years of work by Tribal oral historians and other experts who have kept the stories alive.

  • Image of a picture postcard of Downtown Denver around 1950-1960. The photograph has been taken from an intersection along Sixteenth Street. Signs on buildings read "Paramount (Theatre)" "Denver" "Skagg's" and "Swift's Ice Cream," among others. Cars are travelling in one direction along Sixteenth, toward the D&F Tower in the distance.

    Marveling at the Mile High City

    November 22, 2022 marks the 164th birthday of our beloved Mile High City. To honor the occasion, Jori Johnson and Cody Robinson, part of History Colorado’s research team in the Stephen H. Hart Research Center, uncovered some marvelous images of the Mile High City that you just may have missed.

Hindsight 20/20

How will 2020 go down in history? In the Hindsight 20/20 project from The Colorado Magazine, twenty of today's most insightful historians and thought leaders share their visions of how 2020 will go down in history. 

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