It took five tries over seventeen years for Colorado to become a state. Why did four attempts fail, and the fifth succeed? That’s the story behind 38th Star: Colorado Becomes the Centennial State, an exhibition now on view at the History Colorado Center. This exhibition explores Colorado’s long road to statehood. Our first four attempts at statehood throughout the 1860s were derailed by questions like who should be allowed to vote and what policies the government should adopt. Which economic int

⚡You may be most familiar with the name Tesla thanks to more than 30,000 Tesla vehicles registered in our state, not to mention the out-of-state ones you might see on the road. But physicist Nikola Tesla actually spent time in Colorado Springs, and many posit that the experiments he conducted during his relatively short stay in the Centennial State were instrumental in proving some of his most important theories. In this installment of The Colorado Magazine Podcast, former producer and co-host o