With the 150th anniversaries of the Pike's Peak Gold Rush and Denver's founding on the horizon, Coloradans will honor significant historical milestones this year and next. These commemorations and celebrations offer a perfect opportunity for History Colorado's lineup of distinguished scholars, re-enactors, and authors to look back at the people and events that shaped our past and transport you back in time during the2008-2009 Anniversaries & Milestones lecture series, sponsored by the Walter S. Rosenberry III Charitable Trust.

WHERE/WHEN: All lectures are on the third Tuesday of every month at the Colorado History Museum, 1300 Broadway, Denver, at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m.

COST: Single lectures are $8.50 ($7 for members); the eight-part series is $60 ($45 for members). Sign up for the entire series or for single lectures by calling 303/866-4686. For more information, visit www.coloradohistory.org.

PROGRAMS:


November 18, 2008
FDR and the New Deal in Colorado
Enjoy a candid visit with our 32nd president, a man who led the nation through two of its greatest challenges-the Great Depression and World War II.

January 20, 2009
Urbanized Water: How Gilpin's Impossible Dream Came True
Boosters predicted that a great city would rise at the foot of the Rockies, despite a scarcity of water. Renowned historian Patricia Limerick tells how this dream came true.

February 17, 2009
The American Bison and the American Indian
Richard Williams, President and CEO of the American Indian College Fund and member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, examines the symbiotic relationship between bison and American Indians.

March 17, 2009
Ski Style: The Landscapes and Culture of Colorado Skiing
Skiing is a product promoted with paradoxical imagery-it's convenient and remote, modern and rustic, European and authentically western, exclusive and diverse. Historian Annie Gilbert Coleman traces the power and consequences of these images.

April 21, 2009
150 Years of LoDo: Denver's Newest Old Neighborhood
Historian Judy Morley celebrates Denver's 150th anniversary by examining the city's birthplace: Lower Downtown.

May 19, 2009
Orphan Trains and Western Settlement
Between 1853 and 1930, "orphan trains" relocated children from eastern cities to rural communities. Author Marilyn Irvin Holt tells this story using the personal experiences of orphan train riders.

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History Colorado is the public programs, services and 12 statewide museums and historic sites of the Colorado Historical Society. Established in 1879, the Colorado Historical Society aspires to engage people in our State's heritage through collecting, preserving, and discovering the past in order to educate and provide perspectives for the future. It is headquartered at the Colorado History Museum in Denver. In addition to History Colorado, this educational institution contains the Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, the Stephen H. Hart Research Library, and administers the State Historical Fund-a preservation-based grants program funded by limited stakes gaming tax revenues. For more information visit www.coloradohistory.org or call (303) 866-3682.