History

Hirabayashi objected to the way Japanese-Americans citizens were treated after Pearl Harbor. His fight took him to the Supreme Court and eventually an Arizona prison camp.

At the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, hockey player Taffy Abel became the first Indigenous athlete to carry the flag at the Olympics — and, days later, to medal.

The holiday fruitcake has been the butt of jokes for decades. But one professor in the Mountain West wants to clear its name.

70 years ago, experimenters first proved that nuclear power could be used as more than just a weapon.

The Ludlow Massacre more than a century ago was one of the most violent events in U.S. labor history and a wake-up call for the nation about brutal and often deadly coal mine work. Recent preservation efforts at the site about an hour south of Pueblo have revealed symbols hidden for around a hundred years.

Indigenous and constitutional law experts say a lawsuit filed earlier this month challenging Colorado’s ban on Native American mascots could blunt the national movement that's rejecting such racist and harmful imagery.

The "Spanish Flu" killed 10% of Silverton's population.

Gov. Jared Polis is getting pushback after saying the new recommended name for a mountain in Clear Creek County, Mestaa’ėhehe (pronounced mess-taw-HAY), is too hard to pronounce as written.