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  • Centennial Statehouse: Colorado's Greatest Treasure Premieres Feb. 3!
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    The Colorado Capitol is getting star treatment in a new film celebrating Colorado and its Capitol Building. Centennial Statehouse: Colorado's Greatest Treasure, a Havey Productions film, premieres Feb. 3.

    Capitol Fun Facts! Read more...
  • 2012 D.I.N.E. (Dinner, Ideas 'N Exchange) Season Begins Feb. 16!
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    Our dinner series, designed for friends of the humanities to gather for delicious ingredients 'n entertainment, will begin its 2012 season on Thursday, Feb. 16, with historian and author Margaret Coel. She will join us at the Il Fornaio restaurant, 8000 East Belleview Avenue, Denver, to share her insights and stories with a talk titled "History to Mystery: The Creative Process." Beginning with a cash bar at 6 pm, dinner will be served at 6:30 pm. The all inclusive dinner costs only $35 and seats will be limited, so secure your reservations right away by clicking here, or by calling Gina at Colorado Humanities, (303)894-7951. Read more...
  • Spotlights! Our Board Chair
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    Spotlights!

    Our Board Chair

    The humanities are at the center of what it means to be an American. The expression of humanistic values in our nation's founding documents has made us different from other peoples. It is the commitment to these values, rather than a devotion to a specific race, creed, or religion, that defines us as Americans. And it is the continuous commitment to humanistic values that makes America a place worth living in and defending. Read more...
  • Colorado Poet Laureate - David Mason
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    Gov. Bill Ritter introduced David Mason of Colorado Springs as the state’s newest poet laureate in 2010. Mason is an accomplished poet and co-director of the creative writing program at Colorado College. More... Read his blog about his experiences thus far as Colorado Poet Laureate by clicking here.

     
  • A New Home!
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    We've moved! Waving a fond farewell to our little home of 12 years on Lafayette Street in Denver, Colorado Humanities is excited and happy to announce that we've stretched our wings (and legs) to bigger offices in Greenwood Village. Read more...
  • Grantees
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    COLORADO HUMANITIES AWARDS $71,000 IN GRANTS

    The Colorado Humanities Board of Directors awarded 23 program and research grants on March 12, 2011. "At Colorado Humanities, one of our priorities is to support other organizations' and individuals' good ideas, " said Director of Programs & Center for the Book, Josephine Jones.

    Colorado Humanities provides small (up to $2,000) and large (up to $10,000) program grants to nonprofit organizations and up to $1,000 research grants for individuals. Colorado Humanities approved $71,017 in awards to nonprofit organizations and individual researchers.  For a complete list of grants awarded, click here. New deadlines will be posted by September 2011. For more information, please contact Marnie Lansdown at grant@coloradohumanities.org.
  • 2011 Spring Newsletter

    Click here for our 2011 Spring Newsletter!

What's New?

  • 2012 Black History Live Tour
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    To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, Hasan Davis will portray Angus Augustus Burleigh, a 19th century ex-slave, soldier and scholar who went on to become an acclaimed black educator and minister. Davis's electrifying portrayal of Burleigh provides audiences with an experience of the Civil War through his vast knowledge of Burleigh and African-American history.  Read more…
  • Maggie's Minute: A Colorado Humanities Update, Jan. 24
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    Here we go! A new year begins.

    The Constitution of the United States demands that the President "shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient," giving rise to the present-day custom in January of the President's State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress and, through the Internet, radio and television, the world. 150 years ago, during the American Civil War, President Lincoln's address included these compelling words:

    "Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. "

    Read more...
  • Spotlights! Syd Nathans
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    Spotlights!

    Syd Nathans

    Syd, who  is "Volunteer Host and Organizer Extraordinaire" for our humanities dinner series, D.I.N.E. (Dinner, Ideas 'N Exchange), will be at the Colfax Tattered Cover on Thursday, Feb. 9, to talk about his 2012 just-out Harvard Press book, "To Free a Family."

    Years ago, when I was a Duke history professor and a sometime Washington panelist judging Humanities proposals, I balked when I came to those re-enactor/Chautauqua proposals from Colorado and the West.  Mind you, I wasn't a hide-bound historian--just a provincial one.  I'd edited books on the social history of North Carolina organized around historic sites of the state--books meant for visitors or readers alike.  I'd taught wonderful week-long institutes for North Carolina schoolteachers, where they taught and inspired me far more than I, them.  I'd shifted in my own work from nineteenth century political history to study of the African-American family.  But RE-ENACTMENT?  Read more...
  • What is the American Dream?
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    The American Dream.

    A key element to re-imagining a national concept is to understand the many ways it is perceived, and how they came to be. Our Declaration of Independence states as a self-evident truth the inalienable right to the pursuit of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. What does this mean to us as a nation of individuals?

    Dr. Martin Luther King, one of the greatest thinkers and speakers in American history, referred to these rights at the outset of his Aug. 28, 1963, speech before more than 200,000 people on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., after the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He spoke of the fierce urgency of now, saying, "Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy."

    To consider the American Dream and find out what humanities thinkers believe and hope about it, we have gathered some ideas from others. Read more...

     
  • Announcing Great Lives in Colorado History
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    Announcing our new Colorado biography series, Great Lives in Colorado History, a 13-book series designed for elementary school readers! Written at the 3rd grade level in English and Spanish (as flip books) by Denver school teachers, each biography contains relevant historical photos and a wealth of information about significant Coloradans in history for elementary and middle school readers. What great gifts these make for our school libraries and our children, grandchildren, and young friends! Read more ...
  • 2011 Student Literary Awards Anthology Now Available!
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    Great summer reading and an inspiration for young and old, the 2011 Student Literary Awards Anthology is now available! Click here for your own copy.
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