Destruction by Thomas Cole

Alumnus who loves to teach aims to ‘humanize’ history

Feb. 17, 2021

This year’s teacher of the year credits CU Boulder professors and his parents for the honor

Harry Potter train

Harry Potter as modern religious text

Feb. 9, 2021

CU Boulder senior’s thesis reflects on what it means to be a spiritual text.

Civil War Photo

A question of honor makes history

Jan. 14, 2021

CU Boulder history graduate inspires removal of ‘Lost Cause’ scholar’s name from prestigious Civil War book award.

The bosses of the senate

Unlocking a century’s worth of congressional testimony

Jan. 12, 2021

CU Boulder historian wins NEH-Mellon fellowship for digital publication.

Mt Evans

Patty Limerick named to state Geographic Naming Advisory Board

Aug. 10, 2020

Patty Limerick, faculty director and chair of the board of CU Boulder’s Center of the American West, will play a central role in Colorado’s historic effort to reassess names of state landmarks.

Shneer

Historian wins top honor from American Council of Learned Societies

April 23, 2020

David Shneer’s winning project highlights Holocaust survivors who ‘commemorated murdered Jews in the very country that orchestrated their murder’

1918

Six lessons we can learn from past pandemics

April 9, 2020

“Epidemics highlight the fault lines in our society,” says CU Boulder history Professor Elizabeth Fenn, a Pulitizer Prize winning writer and scholar of epidemics.

Physicians did not know how to treat the disease

Lessons from the 1918/1919 Influenza Pandemic

April 9, 2020

Coronavirus interview with leading historian Susan Kingsley Kent

hazel

Exhibit celebrates a century of female suffrage in America

Feb. 8, 2020

One of those stories is Hazel Schmoll, an alumna who became the first CU Boulder graduate to land a Vassar faculty position.

HannaLore Hein

CU alumna becomes Idaho’s first woman state historian

Dec. 4, 2019

She was inspired partly by CU Boulder’s Patty Limerick, who has served as Colorado state historian

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