The Origins of Sin City Saddled with gleaming skyscrapers and picturesque fountains, the streets of Las Vegas suddenly emerge amongst red-rimmed mesas in the Mojave Desert. Sin City offers a shimmering respite from the desert that surrounds it, a consumerist paradise set along sandstone and tumbleweeds, but it wouldn’t exist if Hoover Dam was never […]
Colorado State University History faculty member, Dr. Douglas Sheflin, was selected to receive the 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title designation for his book, Legacies of Dust: Land Use and Labor in the Colorado Plains. The award recognizes the top academic titles of the year, as reviewed by Choice. Dr. Sheflin has also participated on an American […]
Last Week, PLHC Faculty Director Dr. Jared Orsi published an article in The Conversation discussing Quitobaquito, an oasis in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. As Dr. Orsi points out, the oasis’s past is rich with connection. Over the course of its long human history, the oasis attracted a variety of different land users, each of […]
The following is written by Hailey Doucette, an intern at the PLHC during the fall ’19 semester. Learn more about our internship program. A day in the life of a cultural resources manager On October 2, 2019 I had the opportunity to shadow Rocky Mountain National Park’s Cultural Resource Program Manager, Kelly Dick, and a […]
We are very excited to share that the Henry Luce Foundation has awarded the PLHC a $225,000 grant for our “Telling Untold Stories” project. Through this project, the PLHC plans to identify two under-served communities that have a public lands story to tell, assist the communities in sharing their story, and give them a platform […]
Former program manager for the PLHC, Maren Bzdek, recently discussed the Apollo Mission Control Restoration with Colorado State’s SOURCE magazine. Maren Bzdek also discussed the project with the Colorado Springs Gazette in July. She is currently the senior historic preservation planner for the city of Fort Collins. Below is a time-lapse of the restoration.
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a $350,000 grant to the Colorado Encyclopedia! We can’t wait to continue our partnership with the encyclopedia. This partnership provides Coloradoans with new stories about our beloved Centennial State. Read more about this initiative on CSU’s SOURCE. The NEH grant represents the next phase is a […]
Michael J. Hightower, independent historian and blogger, recently offered strong praise for Michael Rosser and Diane M. Sanders’ book, A History of Mortgage Banking in the West: Financing America’s Dreams in his review in the Western Historical Quarterly. He concludes, “Industry professionals and students alike will find this book to be a useful guide to […]
Graduate Research Assistant, Tim Johansen, reflects on race and parks Graduate Research Assistant, Tim Johansen, contributed the following reflection on his time working with the PLHC on its project with Shenandoah National Park. After completing my M.A. in History at Colorado State University, I was fortunate enough to become part of this project. I was […]
Mike Rosser (CSU ’64) and Diane Sanders (CSU ’14) co-wrote the recently published book, A History of Mortgage Banking in the West: Financing America’s Dreams (University Press of Colorado 2017). The book began as a PLHC research project and highlights the role of finance and mortgage bankers in creating the Colorado we know today. Rosser recently […]
