Digital History | US History
Professor at CU Denver
📖 Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West 📖
cblevins.github.io
Cameron Blevins
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🎙️ We're thrilled to release Listening to Auraria's Past, an audio walking tour of Denver's old Westside neighborhood that was razed by the city in the 1970s to build a downtown campus for higher education. This tour tells the story of the displaced community that lived there: aurariahistory.org +
In 1969, Denver voters approved a bond measure to fund the construction of the Auraria campus (now home to CU Denver, Metro State University, and Community College of Denver). The campus's construction meant the displacement of the existing community and the destruction of their neighborhood. +
The story of the old Westside and the Auraria campus is part of a larger pattern of university-driven displacement and urban renewal across the U.S.: www.humanitiesactionlab.org/renewal-proj...
For decades, displaced Aurarians fought to preserve their history and to gain redress from the schools that had been built on their former neighborhood. Through their work, all three institutions now offer a scholarship for former residents and their descendants. +
