Join us on Zoom for a new series of artist talks, Voces en Arte, coinciding with our latest exhibit, Hecho en Colorado.

Featured artists for 8/5: Cal Duran & David Ocelotl Garcia

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Join us on Zoom as we move our great history talks online. In this new, participatory format we will hear from Phil Carson. Carson is an independent science writer, journalist and author. His books include Across the Northern Frontier: Spanish explorations in Colorado (1998), Roy Buchanan: American Axe (2001), and Working for the Man, Playing in the Band (2018).

Carson’s virtual talk on Edwin James and the first recorded ascent of Pikes Peak is based on his feature article for the Summer 2020 issue of Colorado Heritage, the publication of History Colorado.

One hundred years ago, the largest expansion of voting rights in US history extended the vote to many—but not all—women in the United States. A culmination of efforts by women’s organizations, it was preceded in Colorado by more than 25 years of women voting in the Centennial State. American women had been agitating for equality well before Abigail Adams uttered her famous words to her husband John in 1776: “ . . . remember the ladies.. . all Men would be tyrants if they could.”

Hear the story of Carrie Clyde Holly, the first woman in any state legislature in United States - and maybe in the history of the world - to draft a bill that became a law through her determination and hard work as a state representative of Colorado. We are joined by Dr. Judy E. Gaughan, associate professor of History at Colorado State University-Pueblo. She is currently writing a book: Surely the World Moves: Carrie Clyde Holly, An American First.

For the next installment in the Colorado Women Lecture Series we are joined by Andrea Malcomb, director of the Molly Brown House Museum. Titanic heroine Margaret "Molly" Brown was an activist and philanthropist involved in the women's right to vote movement, and her story demonstrates Colorado's important role in the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920.

History Colorado is proud to join with the Smithsonian Affiliates network to present this special online lecture in celebration of Pride Month.

Katherine Ott, curator and historian at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, gives this special evening program in celebration of Pride Month. Ott will discuss her work curating Illegal to Be You: Gay History Beyond Stonewall, an exhibition currently at the National Museum of American History that commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising and other pivotal moments in the modern LGBTQ+ civil rights movement.

Agnes Wright Spring, was an author, suffragist, and historian. Throughout her career, Spring held the positions of State Librarian of Wyoming, Director of the Federal Writers’ Project in Wyoming, and State Historian of Colorado. Spring’s career as an author and historian did not overshadow her role as an advocate for history education inclusion and accessibility; Spring’s work to foster an environment within the Colorado Historical Society that supported all who were interested in history took many forms.

Loving Women covers the stories and history of women who share romantic feelings, friendships, and life long love of other women which encumber stories from women's suffrage and domestic spheres, to gender transgression and trouble with the law. We are joined by the Center on Colfax for this presentation.

Join us on Zoom as we move our great history talks online. In this new, participatory format we will hear from Jessica Helen Lopez, Spoken Word Artist, Educator, and City of Albuquerque Poet Laureate Emeritus.

Read a poem. Hear a poem. Write a poem honoring the borderlands within us and around us. Poetry performance and workshop/discussion with Jessica Helen Lopez.

Join us on Zoom for History, Place and Identity: Exploring Crypto-Judaism in Southern Colorado through Theatre.

Colorado playwright/dramaturg Jessica Kahkoska will discuss her research and writing process for In Her Bones, a new play exploring the legacy of crypto-Judaism in Southern Colorado. As both an oral history researcher and creative writer, she will share findings from her research and reflections from the playwriting process, exploring how theatre can be a unique tool and platform to illuminate history, place, and identity in Southern Colorado. Scenes from In Her Bones will also be read.

Synopsis of the play: Colorado’s San Luis Valley is world-renowned for its beauty, but the area holds a deeper clandestine heritage: The legacy of Sephardic Jews who fled the Spanish Inquisition five centuries ago. When Mia returns to the region for her grandmother’s funeral, she’s forced to confront a past that she is both fleeing and seeking out. As she looks back on family memories, another world creeps in — one of shadows, forgotten prayers, and secrets hiding right in plain sight. Unearth the complicated legacy of Crypto-Judaism in the Southwest through this unlikely alpine tale of faith, fear and how we pass on culture when written records are too dangerous to keep.