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By Leigh Jeremias: Published on July 21, 2021

The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) has recently lowered its pricing for digitizing newspapers and adding them to the free-to-use online collection. Currently CHNC has over 2 million pages of historic newspapers from almost 600 titles representing all of the 64 Colorado counties; with…[Read more]

“This is a country of freak weather and anything can happen here”
By Michael Peever: Published on June 9, 2021

Camp Amache, also known as the Granada War Relocation Center, was a Japanese concentration camp located in Granada, Colorado from 1942-45.

Japanese people had long faced prejudice from whites in the US, but this intensified…[Read more]

Looking back on the “wittiest, spiciest, most radical little sheet published in the United States,” 101 years after women’s suffrage By Michael Peever: Published on December 1, 2021

On August 18, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution became law and American women were finally guaranteed the universal right to vote. This landm…[Read more]

Greetings historic newspaper connoisseurs! We hope you’ll check out the new content added to the CHNC this month! A special shout out for the Earnest Christian and the Tenderfoot – two publications from the youth point of view from around the turn of the 19th-20th century.

• The Aurora Advocate, 1954-72
• Aurora Star Sentinel, 1972 – New Tit…

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Originally published on the Colorado Virtual Library on January 3rd, 2020. Written by Michael Peever.

Whether it concerns moments in Colorado’s local history or happenings in the national arena or on the world stage, the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) offers a distinctly Coloradan point of view of America’s rich history. The joy…[Read more]

Originally publish on the Colorado Virtual Library October 8, 2020. Written by Michael Peever.

The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) has partnered with many libraries and cultural heritage institutions around the state of Colorado in helping to digitize historic newspaper collections. One key reason why institutions choose to…[Read more]

By Leigh Jeremias: Originally appeared on the Colorado Virtual Library on April 23, 2021

April 23, 1859 proved to be one of the most exciting days in the history of Colorado journalism. On this day the citizens of the newly established Denver City were anxiously awaiting the arrival of the city’s first newspaper issue. The young frontier town, o…[Read more]

Originally appeared in the CHNC Topics page.

For more information on the rationale behind including hateful content in CHNC, see the article “A Window to History” at coloradovirtuallibrary.org, and CHNC’s Statement on Harmful Language and Content in Newspaper Collections.

The Ku Klux Klan, commonly referred to as the KKK or the Klan, is an Ameri…[Read more]

By Michael Peever: Originally appeared in the Colorado Virtual Library on July 7, 2020

College newspapers occupy a sweet spot in the world of newspapers. The freedom their creators have, unlike most traditional newspapers, means that college papers are sometimes lighthearted or humorous in tone. What is always true is that they are a key insight…[Read more]

CHNC Contest Results and More Text Correcting Opportunities!
By Michael Peever: Originally appeared in the Colorado Virtual Library on May 21, 2020

CHNC’s Competition Results

The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection’s (CHNC) text correction competition was a roaring success, with 66 volunteers correcting a whopping total of 121,267 lines of…[Read more]

By Michael Peever: Originally appeared in the Colorado Virtual Library on June 4, 2020

The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) has a lot of gems in its archives. Brightside, I would say, is a gem among gems. Thanks to Denver Public Library’s Western History Collection, CHNC currently has four issues of this fascinating “Official Org…[Read more]

By Leigh Jeremias: Originally appeared in the Colorado Virtual Library on February 1, 2021

The Colorado State Library (CSL) and History Colorado (HC) are excited to announce the addition of the first 15 years, 1976 to 1991, of OUT FRONT Magazine to the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC).

OUT FRONT Magazine (OFM) is a bimonthly…[Read more]

Good vibrations from cool publications
By Michael Peever: Appeared originally in the Colorado Virtual Library on November 3, 2020

I might have extolled the virtues of the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection’s (CHNC) diverse titles once or twice before, and this month’s Window to History is no exception. Today, we consider the “un…[Read more]

The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) is a portal to millions of freely available newspaper articles published from 1859 to present day. The nature of historical materials, including newspaper content, often reflects biases and stereotypes towards people of color, people that identify as LGBTQ, and people from other marginalized…[Read more]

Should auld publications be forgot and never brought to mind? Not on my watch!
Originally appears on the Colorado Virtual Library. By Michael Peever: Published on December 31, 2020

While many of us I’m sure are glad to wave bye-bye to 2020 and look only to a brighter future, I have been drawing comfort and entertainment (comfortainment?) from o…[Read more]

One of the many joys of old newspapers is reading with the benefit of hindsight. It is with this hindsight that I wish to explore 1920s newspapers for this installment of A Window To History, courtesy of the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC). As we live through our own third decade of the century, unsure of how these Twenties will be…[Read more]

The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection’s (CHNC) over 550 newspaper titles are broken down by categories: from Ghost Town publications to Ethnic Newspapers, CHNC has it all. As part of the Windows to History series of articles, we are spotlighting some of these categories and describe the rationale behind the development of the collection. W…[Read more]

Colorado has an interesting and colorful history. Whether you are interested in our mining past, railroad development and growth, livestock activity, agriculture, historic tourism, or tumultuous politics, we have lived it all and recorded it in our newspapers. From the issues that affect us on a national and international level, to the information…[Read more]