Founded in 1965, the University Press of Colorado is a nonprofit cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State University, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University, and Western Colorado University.
In 2012, University Press of Colorado merged with Utah State University Press, which was established in 1972. USU Press titles are managed as an active imprint of University Press of Colorado, and they maintain offices in both Louisville, Colorado, and Logan, Utah.
The University Press of Colorado, including the Utah State University Press imprint, publishes forty to forty-five new titles each year, with the goal of facilitating communication among scholars and providing the peoples of the state and region with a fair assessment of their histories, cultures, and resources.
Finding Solace in the Soil
An Archaeology of Gardens and Gardeners at Amache
Finding Solace in the Soil tells the largely unknown story of the gardens of Amache, the War Relocation Authority incarceration camp in Colorado.
- Copyright year: 2020
Daughters of Harriet
- Copyright year: 2022
Profiting from the Peak
Landscape and Liberty in Colorado Springs
In Profiting from the Peak, geographer John Harner surveys the events and socioeconomic conditions that formed the city, analyzing the built landscape to offer insight into the origins of its urban forms and spatial layout, focusing particularly on historic downtown architecture and public spaces.
- Copyright year: 2021
Teotihuacan and Early Classic Mesoamerica
Multiscalar Perspectives on Power, Identity, and Interregional Relations
- Copyright year: 2021
The Battle of Beecher Island and the Indian War of 1867-1869
Second Edition
During the morning hours of September 17, 1868, on a sandbar in the middle of the Republican River in eastern Colorado, a large group of Cheyenne Dog Men, Arapaho, and Sioux attacked about fifty civilian scouts under the command of Major George A. Forsyth.
- Copyright year: 2021
Adapting to the Land
A History of Agriculture in Colorado
- Copyright year: 2021
Study of the Raft
- Copyright year: 2021
On the Plains, and Among the Peaks: or, How Mrs. Maxwell Made Her Natural History Collection
by Mary Dartt
- Copyright year: 2021
Night and Darkness in Ancient Mesoamerica
Night and Darkness in Ancient Mesoamerica is the first volume to explicitly incorporate how nocturnal aspects of the natural world were imbued with deep cultural meanings and expressed by different peoples from various time periods in Mexico and Central America.
- Copyright year: 2021
The Dawn of Industrial Agriculture in Iowa
Anthropology, Literature, and History
- Copyright year: 2021
The Myths of the Popol Vuh in Cosmology, Art, and Ritual
This volume offers an integrated and comparative approach to the Popol Vuh, analyzing its myths to elucidate the ancient Maya past while using multiple lines of evidence to shed light on the text.
- Copyright year: 2021
Becoming Colorado
The Centennial State in 100 Objects
In Becoming Colorado, historian William Wei paints a vivid portrait of Colorado history using 100 of the most striking artifacts from Colorado’s history.
- Copyright year: 2021
The Archaeology of Greater Nicoya
Two Decades of Research in Nicaragua and Costa Rica
- Copyright year: 2021
Eben Smith
The Dean of Western Mining
David Forsyth recounts the life of Eben Smith, an integral but little-known figure in Colorado mining history.
- Copyright year: 2021
Remembering Lucile
A Virginia Family's Rise from Slavery and a Legacy Forged a Mile High
- Copyright year: 2021
Identity Politics of Difference
The Mixed-Race American Indian Experience
- Copyright year: 2017
Navajo Women of Monument Valley
Preservers of the Past
- Copyright year: 2021
Engaged Archaeology in the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico
This volume of proceedings from the fifteenth biennial Southwest Symposium makes the case for engaged archaeology, an approach that considers scientific data and traditional Indigenous knowledge alongside archaeological theories and methodologies.
- Copyright year: 2021
A Forest of History
The Maya after the Emergence of Divine Kingship
Travis Stanton and Kathryn Brown’s A Forest of History: The Maya after the Emergence of Divine Kingship presents acollection of essays that critically engage with and build upon the lasting contributions A Forest of Kings made to Maya epigraphy, iconography, material culture, and history.
- Copyright year: 2020
Maya Gods of War
Maya Gods of War investigates the Classic period Maya gods who were associated with weapons of war and the flint and obsidian from which those weapons were made.
- Copyright year: 2021