Chinese immigrants sacrificed to create America's first transcontinental railroad. Its completion may have contributed to a backlash that led to the first major immigration clampdown in U.S. history.

Colorado is known as one of the most LGBTQ+ friendly states in the country. But it wasn't always that way. In 1992, voters passed an amendment to the state constitution that labeled Colorado "The Hate State" and sparked a landmark legal battle for gay rights.

The Denver Art Museum just opened the exhibit "The Life and Art of Tokio Ueyama." Some of his works depict scenes of Amache, a World War II, Japanese-American incarceration camp in Colorado.

After touring a museum and looking at the original barracks as part of a field trip to the World War II-era Japanese-American confinement site, Shuko Yoshikami shared how we can get to know one another and avoid mistakes of the past.

The agency is planning the next phase of its state-funded research by consulting with members of the Native American community.

Thousands of immigrant workers survived perilous conditions to build the transcontinental railway – a new monument wants to make sure we don’t forget about them.

Buffalo Soldiers: reVision is a museum exhibit, book, and film that explores the complicated history of Buffalo Soldiers in the West. During American westward expansion, cavalries of Buffalo Soldiers participated in the removal of Indigenous peoples—a history artists are trying to reckon with.

Jonathan P. Thompson of the Land Desk started looking into the history of ski areas in southwest Colorado. He was reminded of how much different developing a ski area was 60 years ago and also of how many little ski hills have been lost to history.

The History Colorado exhibit "Buffalo Soldiers: reVision" seeks to reframe the story of the fort in the San Luis Valley. It includes the stories of Native people and the hundreds of formerly enslaved soldiers who served there in the late 1800s.

Alan Prendergast writes about Denver District Attorney Philip Van Cise, who, in the 1920s, busted a crime ring that had been thriving in the city. He then turned his attention to an even greater threat—the Ku Klux Klan, which was in the process of taking over state government.