History

Regional News

1876 marked the start of Colorado’s decades-long ‘free silver’ crusade

A barrel full of freshly minted ‘silver shiners’ arrived at Denver’s banks

May 6, 2026

Southwest Life

Life could be harsh in Colorado’s rugged, remote Middle Park region in 1876

150 years ago this week, crews worked to clear a wagon road ‘over the range’ to Hot Sulphur Springs

April 30, 2026

Local News

Time traveling on the train to Tacoma Generating Station

Museum fundraiser took guests back to early days of electric generation

April 26, 2026

Southwest Life

Route 66, a quintessential American road trip heavy on kitsch and history, turns 100

A sign marking the beginning of historic Route 66 stands at the intersection of East Adams Street and South Michigan…

April 24, 2026

Southwest Life

150 years ago, naturalists and thrill-seekers formed Colorado’s first mountaineering club

short-lived Rocky Mountain Club forms in Colorado Springs

April 24, 2026

Local News

Storied caboose returns to Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad

of Toh-Atin Gallery sells rail car that used to house Fort Lewis College students

April 21, 2026

Southwest Life

Early Colorado brewers celebrated the centennial with a commemorative bock beer

Denver Brewing Company markets its ‘peculiar and superior beverage’ to local saloons

April 13, 2026

Religion

With Spielberg’s help, a 101-year-old Auschwitz survivor has become a mighty warrior against hate

Ginette Kolinka, a 101-year-old survivor of Auschwitz, smiles after a meeting with pupils in a Paris-region high school in Saint-Maur-des-Fosses,…

April 10, 2026

Local News

Escalante Middle schoolers qualify for state history competition

‘We learn about history so mistakes are not repeated,’ student says

April 5, 2026

Southwest Life

Colorado farmers battled biblical grasshopper plagues in 1876

150 years ago this week, spring planting season began with warnings about the return of Rocky Mountain locusts

April 3, 2026

Religion

A rare look inside the Sistine Chapel for a private concert about angel encounters

Conductor Harry Christopher, center, with tenor Matthew McKinney, left, soprano Elizabeth Watts, second from left, and The Sixtenn present Angels…

March 30, 2026

Religion

Pope Leo moves Father Flanagan of Boys Town fame closer to possible sainthood

Father Edward J. Flanagan, founder of Boy's Town, Neb., speaks into a microphone at Meiji Stadium in Tokyo on May…

March 30, 2026

Regional News

Spiritualists and skeptics weighed in on an 1876 Colorado séance

150 years ago this week, the Rocky Mountain News ran a sensational report on the ‘astonishing occurrences’ at the Gomer…

March 23, 2026

Regional News

Colorado’s constitutional convention adjourned 150 years ago this week

the territory’s weather warmed, new fashions arrived from the East

March 18, 2026

Food

When in Rome: Budapest pizzeria offers time-travel twist with ancient Rome-inspired pie

Laszlo Bardossy, head chef of the Neverland Pizzeria adds topping on the restaurant's Roman-era pizza in Budapest, Hungary, on Feb.…

March 17, 2026

Regional News

Colorado constitutional debates foreshadowed a populist backlash against Gilded Age railroad barons

Political corruption and exorbitant shipping rates fueled the anticorporate Granger movement

March 9, 2026

Southwest Life

U.S. Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell’s successes

Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, seen here in his eagle feather headdress, stands next to Southern Ute tribal member Kenny Frost…

March 8, 2026

Religion

The travertine quarries that built ancient Rome are carving rock for a new generation of temples

A general view of the Degemar Quarry near Tivoli, Italy, 35 kilometers east of Rome, on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026,…

March 6, 2026

Southwest Life

A railroad’s arrival in Pueblo 150 years ago had far-reaching consequences for Colorado and the West

route to the Pacific, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway broke a monopoly that had outraged Southern Colorado

March 6, 2026

Religion

Display of St. Francis of Assisi’s bones confirms enduring appeal of relics for Christians

Pilgrims leave after they honored the bones of St. Francis during the first public display inside the St. Francis Basilica,…

February 27, 2026

Regional News

Secret societies and masquerade fever took over Colorado’s social scene in the 1870s

soon-to-be Centennial State celebrated Washington’s Birthday with parades, pigeon shoots and decadent costume balls

February 23, 2026

Regional News

How tensions over religion molded Colorado’s constitution

and the Centennial State: School funding, tax exemptions and ‘the God Idea’ sparked protracted debates among delegates in 1876

February 22, 2026

Gulliford's Travels

Stories on Stone: Historic Petroglyphs along the San Juan River

In this historic petroglyph of a shoot-out scene along the San Juan River, two Native Americans shoot arrows at Anglos.…

February 6, 2026

Local News

Broken treaties with the Utes paved the way for Colorado’s 1870s San Juan silver rush

Thousands flocked to boomtowns like Ouray and Silverton as Colorado neared statehood

February 2, 2026