History
- In Nan Goodman’s book, “The Puritan Cosmopolis: The Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination,” she traces a sense of kinship that emerged from within the larger realm of Puritan law and literature in late seventeenth-century New England.
- Brian A. Catlos’ book, Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain (2018, Basic Books), explores the history of Islamic Spain and displays a complex portrait of how Muslims, Christians and Jews built a sophisticated civilization that transformed the Western world.
- CU Boulder scholars are helping to rescue the Arapaho language from near extinction.
- If Earl Morris wasn’t the inspiration for Indiana Jones, you could be forgiven for thinking so: He looked the part.
- From its earliest days, CU Boulder educated men and women both. But it wasn’t until 1934 that the first largescale women’s dormitory opened.
- Craig Jones's book The Mountains That Remade America (2017, University of California Press)Â reflects on the Sierra Nevada range and how the mountains have changed the way Americans live.
- The book tells a story of human anguish and betrayal, love and loss, recrimination and regret and shows how choices, once made, can change one’s life forever.
- 10 of the rarest works in Norlin Library's Special Collections & Archives exhibit.
- Byron R. White came to notice for his athletic prowess, then proved himself a star in almost everything else.