History Colorado's curatorial and collections teams immediately began documenting the protests for racial justice during the summer of 2020.

History Colorado’s photographers documented the protests for racial justice across the state during the summer of 2020.

the disCOurse is a place for people to share their lived experiences and their perspectives on the past with an eye toward informing our present. In this heartfelt account, a refugee reflects on the journey that helped to define what constitutes her most prized possessions.

In 1995, Boulder attorney Jean Dubofsky stood before nine U.S. Supreme Court justices to plead the case against Amendment 2, the 1992 amendment to the Constitution of the State of Colorado denying protections to gays and lesbians. On May 20, 1996, the Court ruled the amendment unconstitutional.

This essay first appeared in the November/December 2016 issue of Colorado Heritage, and is an edited excerpt from the author’s book Appealing for Justice: One Colorado Lawyer, Four Decades, and the Landmark Gay Rights Case: Romer v. Evans.

Apron Chronicles: a Patchwork of American Recollections, now on display at the History Colorado Center in Denver, has been a labor of love for EllynAnne Geisel. As the exhibition reaches the end of its remarkable run in May, she recounts the journey that led her to recognize the ties that bind us.

The disCOurse is a place for people to share their lived experiences and their perspectives on the past with an eye toward informing our present. Here, a member of the Volunteers of America team recognizes an organization that’s provided more than a century of compassionate aid to communities in need in Colorado and throughout the nation.

In this article from the spring 2014 issue of the magazine, Thomas Andrews recounts the horrors and string of failures leading to coal mine disasters in Las Animas County in 1910.

What A Forty-Year-Old Book on the Colorado Klan Teaches Us About Hate Groups Today