Black Women Writers

Collection Development and Strategies Department

Featured Database: Black Women Writers

You can use databases to easily find organized collections of articles, journals, news, streaming videos, primary sources, data, and more!  

  • This month, we highlight one of our specialized full-text databases: Black Women Writers.

What’s in it? 

  • This database covers writings related to feminism by authors in Africa and the African…

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BBC Shakespeare Plays

Collection Development and Strategies Department

Featured Database: BBC Shakespeare Plays

You can use databases to easily find organized collections of articles, journals, news, streaming videos, primary sources, data, and more!  

  • This month, we highlight one of our favorite video streaming databases: BBC Shakespeare Plays.

What’s in it? 

  • This database contains an exciting collection of performances of Shakespeare plays…

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Denver Business Journal (DBJ)

Collection Development and Strategies Department

Featured Database: Denver Business Journal (DBJ)

You can use databases to easily find organized collections of articles, journals, news, streaming videos, primary sources, data, and more!  

  • This month, we highlight one of our new business resources, the Denver Business Journal. The University of Colorado Denver's Business School provides funding to support access to the Denver Business Journal.

What’s in it? 

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Spotted in Special Collections: A Poem About A Cannibal

Special and Digital Collections Department

Do you know the story of the “Colorado Cannibal”?

Alferd Packer was a post-Civil War miner and prospector who, lured to Western Colorado by news of a gold strike, headed in February 1874 into the mountains near Breckenridge with five other men. Only one man came out alive.

Two months later, Packer resurfaced with a suspicious amount of cash, some weapons that weren’t his, and a shifty story. He first claimed that his party companions had starved or died from exposure; then, that they had eaten…

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Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980

Collection Development and Strategies Department

Featured Database: Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980

You can use databases to easily find organized collections of articles, journals, news, streaming videos, primary sources, data, and more!  

What’s in it? 

  • Hispanic American Newspapers provides access to Spanish-language newspapers printed in…

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