Journal Articles
EBSCO Academic Search Premier
A multidisciplinary database with
full-text articles. You can find scholarly articles by checking the box to the left of the option,
"Scholarly (Peer-Reviewed) Journals". Academic Search Premier contains many major peer-reviewed
journals in Art, including: Art Bulletin, Art History, Art in America, Art Journal,
Art Monthly, and many others.
Identifying Books in the
library catalog
To find items on a specific aspect of Colorado History, do a Keyword search for Colorado History and that topic. For example:
“Colorado history” and “cripple creek”
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“Colorado history” and “sand creek”
colorado history indians
Online Reference Resources
ProQuest Information and Learning's Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 provides academic and public libraries digital access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities, including several hundred in Colorado.
You can search four major digital collections relating to Colorado History in the Colorado Virtual Library. These collections include: the DPL Western History and Genealogy Photo Collection; the Heritage West Collection; the Colorado Western Trails collection; and the Colorado School of Mines Image Database.
The Colorado Historic Newspaper Collection is a collection of digitized historic newspapers, published in Colorado between 1859 and 1923. The database can be searched by keyword and you can view the articles as they originally appeared in local newspapers.
Web Sites
Colorado Historical Society
Founded in 1879, the Colorado Historical Society brings the unique character of Colorado's past to more than a million people each year through historical museums and highway markers, exhibitions, manuscript and photograph collections, popular and scholarly publications, historical and archaeological preservation services, and educational programs for children and adults
The Colorado State Archives provides an excellent library of Colorado historical records including: Census Records, 1870 Colorado Census Index, Colorado Veterans' Grave Registration, Colorado Volunteers (Civil War) Index, Birth Certificates (after 1900)*, Civilian Conservation Corps Enrollees, City Directories, Business Incorporations, Court Records, and more...Some records are online.