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Facebook winners!
Submitted by jrogers on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 1:54pmWe have our three winners for an 8x10 photograph from the WHG Digital Collections! James Floyd Weisbeck, Katie Sauter and Erin Block each win a 8x10 photograph.
Colorado Author Series Presents: Dr. Colwell-Chanthaphonh
Submitted by lauriekm on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 11:14amCall for Nominations: 2011 Western History Award
Submitted by lauriekm on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 10:57amThe annual Eleanor Gehres Award recognizes an individual or organization that has made a significant gift of library material (books, manuscripts, photographs, maps or other items), scholarship, se
Denver Public Library and Craig Bergsgaard Studios present: Lessons Learned at Bloody Sand Creek
Submitted by lauriekm on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 10:33amOf all the atrocities perpetrated on the Native American people during the Westward expansion, Colorado was home to one of the worst: The Sand Creek Massacre.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly…You Think You Know Colorado History?
Submitted by lauriekm on Tue, 03/29/2011 - 12:00pmDenver citizens such as Speer, Iliff, Lowry, Elitch, Boettcher, and Griffith are all well-known names in Colorado history.
"Like" Us on Facebook and Win!
Submitted by jrogers on Mon, 03/14/2011 - 4:52pmWe're giving away three 8 x 10 photographs from our Western History Digital Collections website.
Journalists Write the American West: C-SPAN 2's BookTV at the 2011 Tucson Festival of Books
Submitted by j_wendel_cox on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 4:33pmMichael Hiltzik (Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century), Jeff Guinn (
At DPL and WHG, the future is now
Submitted by jrogers on Tue, 03/08/2011 - 5:25pmHave you ever dreamed that libraries would one day be a place where people will not only check out items from the collection but also add to it?
Sesquicentennial! Happy 150th Colorado Territory!
Submitted by j_wendel_cox on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 1:58pmSusan Schulten, associate professor of history at the University of Denver, was interviewed last week about the&n








Each weekend C-SPAN 2 devotes itself to nonfiction books. And this weekend at 2:30 PM (ET), BookTV offers a live panel discussion from the 
