In colorful Colorado, the hues of our beautiful state include purple mountains majesty and amber waves of grain. Those golden fields of the prairie see the first rays of daylight that touch Colorado, and are as essential to this place–to its culture, economy, and ecology–as the sunrise.
Featuring a selection of iconic large-format Fielder prints, Horizon: On the Plains with John Fielder evokes the photographer's emotional connection to the sublime and diverse landscapes of Colorado, and invites viewers to lose themselves in the expanse of the Great Plains.
Experience 🖼️ Horizon: On the Plains with John Fielder, now on view at the History Colorado Center.
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🎮 Remember Nintendo 64? Mario Kart was, and still is, a fan favorite! They weren't born in the decade, but the technological leaps of the 90s made video games a household staple-one pixel at a time. Nintendo, Sega, and Sony battled for console supremacy, and we each had our favorite.
The 90s was the last decade before the future, the bridge decade that laid the foundation for the world we navigate today. This exhibition is now on view at the History Colorado Center!
Object highlights of The 90s: Last Decade Before the Future include:
✅ A piece of the Berlin Wall
✅ Costumes worn by some of the decade’s biggest movie stars, including Whoopi Goldberg and Tom Hanks
✅ Signature outfits from era-defining music superstars like Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Jay-Z, The Notorious B.I.G., and the Backstreet Boys
✅ Memorabilia from star athletes like John Elway, Michael Jordan, Kristi Yamaguchi, Patrick Roy, Kerri Strug, Amy Van Dyken, Wayne Gretzky, and Vinny Castilla
✅ Vintage fashion, toys, and technology highlighting the trends and innovations of the decade
✅ So much more!
Learn more: https://www.historycolorado.org/exhibit/the-90s
the 90s: Last Decade Before the Future is sponsored by Blue Moon Brewing Company and CBS Colorado
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Let’s learn about researching Black history in Colorado with Acoma Gaither, Assistant Curator of Black History and Terri Gentry, Engagement Manager for Black Communities at History Colorado!
History Colorado, in collaboration with the Colorado Historic Newspaper Collection (a service of the Colorado State Library) have now digitized 50 years of the Colorado Statesman 📰 Decades of historical events and movements within the Black community of Colorado and the Mountain West are now available to read with easy, online access.
The Colorado Statesman, which later was known as The Denver Star ⭐ was a preeminent Black-owned Denver newspaper that started in 1895. It was described as "the mouthpiece of the people."
A collection of Colorado historic newspapers, including 50 years of the Colorado Statesman, from 1904 to 1954, can be browsed and searched for online at the Colorado State Historic Newspapers website at h-co.org/CHNC
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💡Did you know that Martin Luther King Jr. came to Colorado in the 1960s during the height of the Civil Rights Movement? Join Adam Dempsey Morgan, documentarian and host of KUVO’s Groove Jazz Rendezvous, as he shows his film, When A King Came to Town.
This documentary will follow King’s visit to Denver and Littleton in 1964, his return in 1967 after his vocal opposition to the Vietnam War, and the local reaction to Dr. King’s assassination in April 1968.
Adam Dempsey will give a behind-the-scenes look at this visual documentation of Colorado history and will be available for a Q&A after the film.
DATE: January 16
TIME: 6:30pm - 8:00pm
LOCATION: History Colorado Center
1200 North Broadway
Denver, Colorado
🎟️ Get Tickets: https://www.historycolorado.org/events-experiences#event=when-a-king-came-to-town-film-screening-and-discussion;instance=20250116183000?popup=1&lang=en-US
🎈🎉 Happy moments from the opening celebration of the 90s: Last Decade Before the Future! Now on view at the History Colorado Center! 💾
The 1990s changed everything. It was the last decade before the future, the bridge decade that laid the foundation for the world we navigate today.
Some of the objects you can experience include:
✅ A piece of the Berlin Wall
✅ Costumes worn by some of the decade’s biggest movie stars, including Whoopi Goldberg and Tom Hanks
✅ Signature outfits from era-defining music superstars like Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Jay-Z, The Notorious B.I.G., and the Backstreet Boys
✅ Memorabilia from star athletes like John Elway, Michael Jordan, Kristi Yamaguchi, Patrick Roy, Kerri Strug, Amy Van Dyken, Wayne Gretzky, and Vinny Castilla
✅ Vintage fashion, toys, and technology highlighting the trends and innovations of the decade
✅ So much more!
Learn more: https://www.historycolorado.org/exhibit/the-90s
the 90s: Last Decade Before the Future is sponsored by Blue Moon Brewing Company and CBS Colorado
🚗 Tag along on a road trip adventure through History Colorado's collection with Curator of Domestic Life, Anna Weissman!
Do you have any vacation plans around our great state for the upcoming holiday season? Let us know in the comments 🛣️
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💾 Now on view at the History Colorado Center!
The 1990s changed everything. It was the last decade before the future, the bridge decade that laid the foundation for the world we navigate today.
Some of the objects you can experience include:
✅ A piece of the Berlin Wall
✅ Costumes worn by some of the decade’s biggest movie stars, including Whoopi Goldberg and Tom Hanks
✅ Signature outfits from era-defining music superstars like Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Jay-Z, The Notorious B.I.G., and the Backstreet Boys
✅ Memorabilia from star athletes like John Elway, Michael Jordan, Kristi Yamaguchi, Patrick Roy, Kerri Strug, Amy Van Dyken, Wayne Gretzky, and Vinny Castilla
✅ Vintage fashion, toys, and technology highlighting the trends and innovations of the decade
✅ So much more!
Learn more: https://www.historycolorado.org/exhibit/the-90s
the 90s: Last Decade Before the Future is sponsored by Blue Moon Brewing Company and CBS Colorado
Growing up in the Sun Valley Projects
The Denver Housing Authority built the Sun Valley Homes in the neighborhood in 1958. This 330-unit affordable-housing complex followed Las Casitas, DHA's first housing complex in the area, built in 1942 and demolished in 1980.
In 2024, Vehha Khan, a teen who grew up in the Sun Valley neighborhood in the westside of Denver, gathered his friends to share their memories after urban renewal had transformed their neighborhood. Using these memories Vehha collaborated with youth artist Jorge Medina to recreate a day in the life growing up in Sun Valley.
This work of art, titled Growing up in the Sun Valley Projects ☀️ describes their memories.
The 1990s changed everything: technological revolutions, landmark moments, and rapid social, cultural, economic, and political changes that planted the seeds for the 21st century and shaped our modern world.
Our new exhibition, the 90s: Last Decade Before the Future opens November 22nd at the History Colorado Center. Some of the objects you can experience include:
✅ A piece of the Berlin Wall
✅ Costumes worn by some of the decade’s biggest movie stars, including Whoopi Goldberg and Tom Hanks
✅ Signature outfits from era-defining music superstars like Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Jay-Z, The Notorious B.I.G., and the Backstreet Boys
✅ Memorabilia from star athletes like John Elway, Michael Jordan, Kristi Yamaguchi, Patrick Roy, Kerri Strug, Amy Van Dyken, Wayne Gretzky, and Vinny Castilla
✅ President Bill Clinton’s saxophone and Hillary Rodham Clinton’s iconic pantsuit
✅ Vintage fashion, toys, and technology highlighting the trends and innovations of the decade
✅ So much more!
See you soon! The exhibition opens November 22nd at the History Colorado Center.
the 90s: Last Decade Before the Future is sponsored by Blue Moon and CBS Colorado
Please join us at the 2024 Women’s History Symposium, “Framed in Time.” and explore how women’s history is found in unexpected places and through non-traditional techniques.
📅 Saturday, November 16 , 2024, 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. at the History Colorado Center
A dress made of rattlesnake skins. The boots of a buffalo soldier. Barbie. An iconic wedding dress. This year’s symposium will use stories of these and more to explore the history of women’s agency in attaining economic resources, navigating marital and platonic relationships and being defined as more than public perception.
Presentations include:
🐍 The Woman Behind the Snakeskin Dress: Rattlesnake Kate Slaughterback with Augusta “Gus” Rudnick, City of Greeley Museums
💍 The Tabor Triangle with Shaun Boyd, History Colorado Curator of Politics and Government, Curator of Archives;
👯 Building Barbie’s World: Ruth Handler and the gender and class politics of America’s favorite doll with Anna L. Weissman, PhD, History Colorado, Associate Curator of Domestic Life
⭐ Keynote Speaker: Boots on the Ground: Exploring the Identity, Agency and Impact of Cathay Williams, Chloé Duplessis
...and many more!
Learn more: https://www.historycolorado.org/womens-history-symposium
The 2024 Symposium is an all-day event featuring multiple panel discussions, presentations, lunch, and a keynote presentation.
🍿📽️ Join us for the Colorado premier of the multi-award-winning movie, Gabriel’s Daughter: The Life and Legacy of Clara Brown.
This film tells the true story of an African American pioneer. Newly freed from enslavement, Clara walked along-side a wagon-train as a laundress and cook from Kentucky to the gold mines of Colorado. However, Clara was seeking a treasure beyond gold, she longed to find her only surviving daughter Eliza Jane, sold away from her at an auction.
An award-winning ensemble helps recount Clara’s journey. The film travels from a New Jersey recording studio, with opera highlight performances, to historic Colorado locations where Clara earned great wealth and was inducted into the Colorado Pioneer Society. The storytelling is enhanced with candid interviews from the cast who, in examining Clara’s life, grapple with past and present societal interconnections.
Date: November 15
Time: 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: History Colorado Center
1200 North Broadway
Denver, Colorado
🎟️ Get tickets: https://www.historycolorado.org/events-experiences#event=honoring-clara-brown-film-screening-and-discussion;instance=20241115180000?popup=1&lang=en-US
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Video footage courtesy Twin Star Productions
❄️ Don't miss out on the fun Dec. 30th - Jan 3rd (excluding Jan 1st)! Registration is now open for Winter Break Camp at the History Colorado Center.
Join us for a week of festive fun and discovery at History Colorado! Each day, campers will dive into a different winter tradition, from the science of snowflakes to global holiday customs and New Year's festivities. Through hands-on crafts, games, and exciting activities, campers will explore the wonders of winter in Colorado and beyond. Come celebrate the season with us as we learn, create, and enjoy the magic of winter together!
Register your child at: https://historycolorado.jumbula.com/Winter2024HandsonHistoryCamp/DenverHandsOnHistoryWinterBreakCamp2024
Hands-On History provides safe, engaging learning opportunities for elementary & middle school children.
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