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Park Hill Community Bookstore staff picks
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Park Hill Community Bookstore has reading suggestions for April

by The Colorado Sun 2:05 AM MDT on Apr 30, 20238:58 AM MDT on Apr 28, 2023

The volunteers at the Denver nonprofit Park Hill Community Bookstore recommend three nonfiction books that focus on the trials women faced in the West.

Posted inBook Excerpts

“Gangbuster” paints a portrait of an innovative, overlooked Denver crime fighter

by Alan Prendergast 2:15 AM MDT on Mar 26, 20234:57 AM MDT on Mar 26, 2023

“Gangbuster,” Alan Prendergast’s deeply reported book on Philip Sidney Van Cise, charts a legendary career confronting scourges from grifters to the KKK.

Posted inPolitics and Government

A piece of Colorado Capitol history is for sale on eBay for $9,000. State officials want it back.

by Jesse Paul 3:05 AM MST on Mar 1, 20234:54 PM MST on Feb 28, 2023

A committee is debating whether to buy the sconce, ask that it be donated, or have state troopers go seize it, as they’ve done with other Capitol relics

Posted inBook Excerpts

“The Curse of the Marquis de Sade” illuminates both scoundrel and scandal

by Joel Warner 2:15 AM MST on Feb 26, 202312:02 PM MST on Feb 20, 2023

In “The Curse of the Marquis de Sade,” author Joel Warner introduces readers to both the infamous man and his manuscript that became the object of massive controversy.

Posted inSunLit Interviews

From historical roots, Joan Jacobson mashed up biography, fantasy and travel guide

by The Colorado Sun 2:10 AM MST on Jan 8, 20232:25 PM MST on Jan 4, 2023

Author Joan Jacobson selected some diverse, pivotal Colorado figures. Then she created a time-travel device that allows them to view their legacies.

Posted inBook Excerpts

“Borderlands Curanderos” traces impact of two faith healers and revolutionaries

by Jennifer Koshatka Seman 2:15 AM MST on Nov 20, 20225:50 PM MST on Nov 14, 2022

Jennifer Koshatka Seman’s scholarly history examines the impact of 19th-century faith healing practices and radical politics of two curanderos in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.

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Jennifer Seman’s graduate research led to her book “Borderlands Curanderos”

by Colorado Humanities & Center for the Book 2:10 AM MST on Nov 20, 20225:33 PM MST on Nov 14, 2022

Author Jennifer Seman had to dig deep for documents referencing her two main characters, who left little in terms of primary documents for “Borderland Curanderos.”

Posted inSunLit Interviews

Adrian Miller drew on oral histories of enslaved people to address origins of barbecue

by Colorado Humanities & Center for the Book 2:10 AM MST on Nov 13, 20225:31 PM MST on Nov 9, 2022

While exploring Black cultural ties to barbecue cuisine, author Adrian Miller’s research for “Black Smoke” also revealed its Native American foundation.

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Opinion: An honest history of Colorado’s political evolution includes LGBTQ issues and people

by Rachel Walker 1:30 AM MST on Nov 10, 20228:40 PM MDT on Nov 4, 2022

Whether you agree with the politics, you should know the history behind how and why it happened. So should your kids.

Posted inColoradans

Echoes of a buried past carry from the pauper’s section of a Leadville cemetery all the way to Ireland’s shores

Kevin Simpson by Kevin Simpson 4:02 AM MDT on Oct 30, 20228:47 AM MDT on Nov 1, 2022

Denver history professor Jim Walsh sees his “life’s work,” with help from both sides of the Atlantic, lead to both memorial and reconnection .

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