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Maeve Conran/Rocky Mountain Community RadioAlan 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. -
Sierra AlvarezFor decades, Native Americans were sent off to boarding schools run by the federal government or religious groups. They were stripped of cultural ties and forced to assimilate into an American lifestyle.
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Every community has its own unique place names, often with a backstory. In Telluride, a proposed development has brought renewed attention to a traffic circle long known as 'Society Turn.' -
High school students from across the country are coming to Wyoming national parks to learn how to help preserve historic buildings for future generations.
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Tens of thousands of victims and survivors of the Holocaust are being honored in Germany. It’s part of a three decades-old grassroots effort to create the world’s largest decentralized memorial by placing special stones at the sites where residents once lived and welcoming back their families.
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Black Americans used the Green Book in the mid-1900s to find safe places to travel. Now an organization in the Mountain West is highlighting many of these locations.
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Fifty years ago, Oglala Lakota activists took over the village of Wounded Knee in an occupation that lasted 71 days. Journalist Kevin McKiernan reflects on the standoff and the legacy it leaves.
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Ed Kabotie is a provocative artist who mixes music and history from an Indigenous perspective. The musician and educator recently performed at the Canyon of the Ancients Visitor Center and Museum.
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The state's historic division plans a survey of locations, also known as Green Book sites.
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A new archaeological discovery announced in November has rocked the Basque community. The hand of Irulegi, found on a dig near Pamplona is shedding new light on the origins of the Basque language and its people who wasted no time turning the artifact into memes.
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The process of getting Amache under the National Park Service umbrella involved years of effort. It means more funding for preservation in the short term. But no matter who administers the site, everyone involved hopes the survivors – and their stories – stay front and center.
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It started with a teacher who saw an opportunity to do a living history project and wound up volunteering to keep up the site at Amache for 30 years. Today, historians, survivors, and archaeologists are fighting to preserve the history there.
