New History Exhibit Explores the Triumphs Trials and Transformation of Colorado
By Nicole C. Brambila | The Denver Gazette
After three and a half years in Colorado, I knew the state had mountains and sunshine.
What I didn’t know was how often Colorado has reinvented itself.
Or why Colorado is the way it is.
After a 90-minute tour with Katherine Mercier — a historian who developed the “38th Star” exhibition at the History Colorado Center — I began to understand the why.
Colorado celebrates its 150th anniversary as a state on Aug. 1.
I’ve always thought of Colorado as a blue state. But that wasn’t the case in the years before statehood.
Politicians viewed Colorado through a very different lens — as a place more likely to send Republicans to Congress and the White House. This political reality shaped Colorado’s long ...