History
An artifact of CU’s Heritage Center is believed to be one of the switches that sourced power for Old Main.
Several months after the March on Washington, CU professor Charles Nilon spoke at a civil rights demonstration on campus outside of the UMC.
Before the rise of scientific calculators and computers in the 1960s and 70s, cylindrical slide rules were used to complete multiplication, division and other complex mathematical operations. This particular slide rule — known as Thacher’s
The University Portfolio’s first issue lamented the lack of a university glee club, reported anticipation for the upcoming Christmas holiday and exclaimed that Dr. Sewall — CU’s first president — would work the eight chemistry students 15 hours a day if he could.
A story of the history of the Pearl Street Mall and how it came to fruition.
In The Scholar and the Struggle, David A. Varel tells Lawrence Reddick's compelling story.
During the 1918 flu epidemic, the visiting Student Army Training Corps who lived in the Armory were dispersed into “barracks-like tents” so the building could be used as a hospital.
America Through Baseball is one of CU's most popular history course. Tom Zeiler is the mastermind behind the class.
by Cody McDevitt (Jour'07) (The History Press, 224 pages; 2020) Buy the Book In 1923, in response to the fatal shooting of four policemen, the mayor of Johnstown ordered every African American and Mexican immigrant who
by Karen Elting Brock (Engl'86), Linda Ligon, Jun Wang (Thrumus Books, 2020; 160 pages) Buy the Book The book introduces more than a dozen contemporary artists from four ethnic groups working in the techniques of their ancestors,