by museumdoug | Dec 7, 2018
How the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings Changed Baseball and America The year 2019 marks the 150th anniversary of the formation of the Cincinnati Red Stockings, baseball’s first openly all-professional team. Playing games in cities as far apart as Boston and San...
by museumdoug | Dec 4, 2018
Moving West: Who Moved to California in the 1930s and Why Migration to California is one of the dominant history topics of the 1930s, built on a wealth of information from literature, news stories, and photographs. Using newly available data from the 1940 U.S. Census,...
by museumdoug | Dec 4, 2018
What’s Cooking in the Archives? A Food Historian’s View of Colorado Culinary Literature Food history and food studies are more popular than ever. From bookshelves to university classrooms, we study the history of food because it tells us about what, how much, and why...
by museumdoug | Dec 4, 2018
Unconventional Women of the West In this presentation by The Legendary Ladies, Inc., you will meet fascinating women who made unique contributions to the American West. Find out: Who was an American folk hero Who organized a “little piece of heaven” Who was a Colorado...
by museumdoug | Dec 4, 2018
The Failed 1976 Denver Winter Olympics In 1972, Denver became the only host city to reject hosting the Olympic Games. For Colorado’s emerging ski industry, the voters’ rejection of the Games came as a blow. The state’s burgeoning ski industry joined the U.S. Forest...
