“Now, that’s wrong! Some of these Japanese are citizens of the United States.” Colorado Gov. Ralph Carr’s response to Executive Order 9066 forcing Japanese into internment camps during WWII.
Book Reviews
Dr. Bruce Paton, former chief of cardiac surgery at both the Colorado General Hospital and the Denver Veteran’s Administration Hospital and former acting dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, has written a most informative book about the development of the university’s...
Publishing Colorado History: A Review Essay Inspired by Alan Swallow
Sandra Dallas is now a nationally known Colorado author who hit the New York Times bestseller list in 2010. She is also one of many to have had her first book published by Colorado’s little-known...
Powerful businessmen and politicians have made the Brown Palace Hotel their work and play ground for more than one hundred years. But what of the women who accompanied and entertained them and are largely overlooked by historians?
Debra Faulkner has taken a huge step in correcting the...
Anyone traveling around Colorado who loves old homes should pick up a copy of The Walls Talk: Historic House Museums of Colorado to discover wonderful house museums in every part of the state. Some, like the Byers-Evans House (Denver), the Miramont Castle (Manitou Springs), or Rosemount...
Denver’s City Park and Whittier Neighborhoods is not just the story of two of Denver’s distinguished neighborhoods but the story of our relationships—our relationships with each other and with our neighborhood. Tucked along the edge of downtown Denver, the Whittier and City Park...
Do you know what’s weird about the word weird? It goes against the rule “i before e except after c.” Do you know what’s weird about Weird Colorado? It goes against the expectation that books like this are merely superficial exploitations of human...
Everything you need to know about City by Design is expressed on the glossy, full-color jacket cover of this coffee table trifle. A photo-shopped montage looking across Speer Boulevard to downtown features the back of Curt Fentress’s mammoth, four-square-block-swallowing convention...
There may be more biographies of Soapy Smith to come but none will flash the resources, research, or passion of Alias Soapy Smith: The Life and Death of a Scoundrel.
The biography of Jefferson Randolph Smith II, widely known as “Soapy,” who was one of Denver’s and the West’s most...
Duane A. Smith, the dean of western mining history and Colorado’s preeminent historian with over fifty books to his credit, now turns his keen eye on David Day, the acerbic editor and owner of the Ouray, Colorado, Solid Muldoon. In The Irrepressible David F. Day, Smith takes a look at...
Mary Hallock Foote would be the first to tell you that she was a well-bred, cultured, refined gentlewoman. But, readers of Social Class in the Writings of Mary Hallock Foote may assign Foote a few adjectives she might find less flattering.
In Social Class in the Writings of...