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A new book by Lisa Napoli shares the stories of four women trailblazers in the field of broadcast journalism.
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In the early 20th century, thousands moved to the Front Range to work in the massive sugar beet industry. In Alta Vista, a sugar beet neighborhood northeast of Fort Collins, many settlers from Mexico and the American Southwest made their homes from adobe. One adobe home still standing today belongs to the Cordova family, who have lived in the area for more than 100 years.
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Many American towns and metropolises have initiated unions with international locales – “sister cities,” where citizens travel to each others' hometowns and build cultural bridges. Rarely have local leaders considered such an arrangement with tribal nations, until now.
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The Union Printers Home in Colorado Springs once housed patients recovering from tuberculosis. Now, as it's under renovation to become a community center, documentarians are finding fascinating artifacts that point to the complex and dynamic history of the property.
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Several moments during the last two years have reflected race-based problems in Loveland — at city council, school and library board meetings, during protests and in Facebook groups. Often, a key point of contention for some residents is whether racism even exists in the city, or ever did.
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Prior to World War I, Nevada’s Douglas County adopted an ordinance that prohibited Native Americans from being in the towns of Minden or Gardnerville after sunset — at the risk of jail time or worse.
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Today, Moscow’s brief history as a probable sundown town seems a continent away. The northern Idaho town of 25,000 saw multiple racial justice protests last year. Black Lives Matter signs line the windows of Moscow’s downtown restaurants and cafes. But some people of color still feel uneasy here.
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Sundown towns once drove out people of color or prohibited them from living within city limits. This practice started in the late 19th century, but the impact continues today. In Colorado, Chinese immigrants flocked to the state to find gold. They were tolerated in some mining camps and run out of others.
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In 1882, 63 Russian Jewish immigrants found themselves in the small town of Cotopaxi, Colorado. While their attempts to farm on rocky soil in high elevation were soon deemed fruitless, they left a remarkable impact on the state and helped to carve out a space for Jewish immigrants in the West.
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Starting in 1969, Trinidad, Colorado, a small former mining town near the New Mexico border was one of the few places in the world with a clinic providing gender confirmation surgery. KUNC's Henry Zimmerman speaks with a pair of historians about a new book on the trans history of Trinidad.