Ann Sneesby-Koch

Assistant Curator of Serials and Project Manager

Ann Sneesby-Koch is the Project Manager for the Colorado Digital Newspaper Project, a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded grant project to digitize historic Colorado Newspapers, and the Assistant Curator of Serials at History Colorado.

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Ann Sneesby-Koch

Written by Ann Sneesby-Koch

  • Photo of a long, one-story building that is part of the Fort Lewis Indian School. Students from the school are lined up in rows along the building front in this historic photo. Handwriting at the bottom of the photo says "Fort Lewis Indian School No. 3 F. Gonner Photo."

    “A Lasting Disgrace”

    In 1903, The Denver Post investigative journalist Polly Pry exposed abuses at the Fort Lewis Indian Boarding School that shocked the nation. Her reporting brought to light the mistreatment of Native children that was all too common at boarding schools throughout the nation.

  • Photo of a single flourescent bulb faintly illuminating the dark.

    Spooky History Lurks in Newspaper Collection

    History Colorado’s collection of historic newspapers captured history as it happened—and the ghostly whispers of events beyond our mortal understanding.

  • Image of the masthead of historic newspaper, The Denver Star, dated Saturday, December 18, 1913. On either side of the name of the paper is a solid colored black star, and beneath the name, the masthead says "Established 1888. The papers formerly known as The Statesman and The Independent, have been merged into The Denver Star. Twenty-sixth year, Number 117. Five Cents a Copy" along with the date of issue.

    “Curse of a Nation”

    How Denver’s Black newspapers raised the alarm and rallied the resistance against one of Hollywood’s first—and most notoriously racist—blockbusters.