History Colorado

The State Historical Society of Colorado, now known as History Colorado, will support History Colorado’s Stephen H. Hart Research Center’s development of a model co-created with Latino and Hispanic communities to interpret, preserve, and make accessible their own historical past. This project for traditional libraries and archives will break down preservation and access barriers and contribute to the field’s attempts to shift the paradigm of our archival work from custodianship to cooperative stewardship. The project will co-create a framework to be tested in three communities. This will result in a replicable model and toolkit for centering communities in the archival work of selection and appraisal, arrangement and description, access, preservation and care, and outreach and advocacy. This project embraces the need for archivists to learn from communities about how they tell, validate, preserve, and share their collective pasts.