News

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on October 14, 2018 By Patty Limerick Here is the mantra of consolation and reassurance I have been reciting to myself for years: “After this most recent episode of bitter and unresolved conflict, the polarization of the American people...

Once upon a time, a mother took her son to see the Supreme Court in session. The little boy sat patiently as lawyers presented their arguments, and the justices listened dispassionately. And then a fly landed on the forehead of one of the justices, who raised his hand to brush it off.

Original article can be found at The Denver Post Originally published on August 17, 2018 at 12:01 pm By: Patty Limerick This Thursday, May 17, 2018, photograph, shows “Play Ball!,” the new special exhibit inside the History Colorado Center, in Denver. Kevin J. Beaty, Denverite via AP This Thursday, May...

Original article can be found at Colorado Public Radio, Colorado Matters Originally published on August 9, 2018 By Ann Marie Awad When Patty Limerick was tapped to be Colorado’s next State Historian in 2015, she says she was looking forward to working with History Colorado . It did not take...

Original article can be found at The Gazette Originally published on August 5, 2018 By Patty Limerick Special to The Gazette “Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic,” William Jennings Bryan said in his famed “Cross of Gold”...

Original article can be found at The New York Times Originally published on July 24, 2018 By Julie Turkewitz DENVER — As a candidate for Colorado governor, Walker Stapleton has touted a distinguished biography: two terms as state treasurer, a business degree from Harvard and a long family history of...

Original article can be found at WestWord Originally published on July 17, 2018 By Patricia Calhoun On August 1, Colorado Day, History Colorado will install its new State Historians Council, comprising five historians from academic institutions across the state. The University of Colorado Denver’s Tom Noel will head the council...

Original article can be found at Denver Post Originally published on July 13, 2018 By Patty Limerick History Colorado and I are old friends. Thirty years ago, still a newcomer to Colorado, I gave the keynote speech at the society’s annual members meeting. Over the years, to use the classic...

Original article can be found at Colorado Public Radio News Originally published on July 11, 2018 By Grace Hood Eighty percent of Colorado is experiencing some form of drought or dryness. That means dry river basins, hungry wildfires and parched farmland across the state. Some have already started comparing conditions...

Original article can be found at The Weekly Standard Originally published on July 3, 2018 By Alice B. Lloyd ALA won’t honor Little House on the Prairie author anymore: All the more reason to read her recent biography. You’ve probably read by now that the American Library Association removed Laura...