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Dear Alumni, Students, Colleagues, and Friends, I hope all of you are enjoying a wonderful start to the summer. Over the past academic year of 2025-2026, the students, staff, and faculty in the History Department have had great accomplishments in bringing our critical engagement with past and present in our...

The History Department is proud to announce that both Associate Professor Dale Stahl and Professor Emerita Pamela Laird published books this academic year. Their books are wonderful contributions to their respective fields and will certainly remain valuable to the field of history for years to come. Pamela Laird’s research and...

The History Department would like to congratulate and commend undergraduate history student Ronnie Karanja for his stand-out work this year! This academic year, he served as Dr. Rachel Gross’ outstanding undergraduate research assistant and participated in CU Denver’s annual Research and Creative Activities Symposium (RaCAS) 2026. As a dedicated sophomore,...

Protecting Denver’s African American History: History Students Create Emergency Response Plan at Denver’s Black American West Museum This past spring, Professor Bill Wagner’s Museum Collections Management Class partnered with the Black American West Museum and Heritage Center (BAWMHC) to gain hands-on experience while making impactful changes for the future success...

Each year, the History Department honors various exceptional students with awards to celebrate and support their scholarship. These were the Spring 2025 recipients of each award: Mark Foster Scholarship - Britney Berlin Koch Fellowship - David Allen and Colin Hayward Ward Family Prize - Kira Boatright and Jolie Diepenhorst The...

Twenty-Five Years of Greatness: Reflecting and Honoring Three Faculty Members on Twenty-Five Years with the History Department The 2024-2025 school year marked an exciting milestone for three of our lovely history faculty members. This spring, the history Program Assistant, Tabitha Fitzpatrick, and two of our associate professors, Gabriel Finkelstein and...

In 2025, National History Day in Colorado (NHDC) reached a milestone, engaging over 20,000 students statewide through the University of Colorado Denver. Operating under the theme of "Rights & Responsibilities in History," the program successfully sent a 58-student delegation to the National Contest in Maryland to compete among 3,000 global...

Dear Friends, Greetings from the History Department at the University of Colorado, Denver. We are excited to share our annual newsletter, which caps off the great achievements of our community of scholars and supporters. More than ever, our community is committed to free inquiry, debate, and critical memory of the...

The History Department is proud to announce that Professor Rachel Gross has been awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor, following approval by the University of Colorado Board of Regents this spring. Dr. Gross currently serves as the Co-Director of Public History and will also be the Director of Graduate...

Professor Rachel Gross published her first book this spring, Shopping All the Way to the Woods: How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America, a Yale University Press publication. Congratulations! This achievement is the culmination of 13 years of research, writing, and tireless effort on Professor Gross’s part. The book...