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Silent Witnesses: Exploring the Hidden Histories of Abandoned Locations in New Mexico

ONLINE ONLY NM, United States

Bridget Harrington Michael Moore Historic Photojournalists   What started as a project to explore New Mexico has grown into a quest to create compelling images of little-known places in the state and share the stories behind them. After starting with an old-school road map, Michael Moore has now spent almost 3,000 hours researching and creating…

A Place of Thin Veil: Life and Death in Gallup, New Mexico

ONLINE ONLY NM, United States

Robert “Bob” F. Rosebrough   Attorney and Author Gallup, New Mexico is a place that is disproportionately and simultaneously wonderful and terrible.  A reservation border town with a remarkably diverse citizenry, Gallup started out as a railroading and coal mining town with an alcohol-soaked, violent history.  As an outsider who embraced the realities of this…

A Nuclear Family: Coming of Age in Oppenheimer’s Secret City

ONLINE ONLY NM, United States

Ellen Wilder Bradbury-Reid Author, Nuclear History;  Art Historian Ellen will draw on her memories of growing up as a child in Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, and the early years following.  Her father, Edward Wilder, was part of the team which built the explosives shell for the “Fat Man” nuclear bomb  detonated over Nagasaki…

Water for the People: The Acequia Heritage of New Mexico in a Global Context

ONLINE ONLY NM, United States

  Enrique R. Lamadrid Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Spanish University of New Mexico   José A. Rivera, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Community and Regional Planning University of New Mexico   This will be an extended video presentation.   The talk will speak to topics drawn from their 2023 edited book Water for the People which…

Diaries of Pioneer Women

ONLINE ONLY NM, United States

Norma Libman Educator, Journalist What was it really like for a woman to journey west to a new life? The journey west was perilous and exciting. The journals kept by women pioneers provide details that enrich our understanding of the experience in a way that differs from and enhances the information we get from the…

Onate and Villagra: 1598 New Mexico

This month's presentation has been a collaboration between the Friends of History and Southwest Seminars (southwestseminars.org), a Santa Fe educational non-profit which offers weekly in-person lectures featuring distinguished scholars 50 Mondays a year for the past 26 years.  This nonprofit is the recipient of important historic and cultural preservation awards and a proud partner with…

The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis

In-person walking tour 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Melissa J. Homestead Professor, English and Program Faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies  University of Nebraska--Lincoln  Willa Cather and Edith Lewis lived together in New York City for nearly forty years. While Cather built her career as a novelist, Lewis worked as a magazine editor and advertising writer while also, behind the scenes, editing Cather’s…

Crosses of Iron: The Tragic Story of Dawson, New Mexico and Its Twin Mining Disasters

In-person walking tour 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Nick Pappas Journalist, Author In October 1913, 261 miners and two rescuers died when a massive explosion ripped through a mine operated by Phelps, Dodge & Co. in Dawson, N.M. Ten years later, a second blast claimed the lives of another 120 miners. Today, all that remains is a cemetery marked by a sea of…

Illusions of Empire: The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

In-person walking tour 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Dr. William “Billy” Kiser Associate Professor of History, Department Chair, Texas A&M University—San Antonio   Click here for the presentation:  https://bit.ly/3uIjHVd   During the Civil War, Mexico's North overlapped with the U.S. Southwest in the context of diplomacy and military operations.  A disparate group of historical actors vied for power and control along the U.S.-Mexico…

Pablo Abeita: The life and Times of a Native Statesman of Isleta Pueblo, 1871-1940

In-person walking tour 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Rick Hendricks Former New Mexico State Historian Editor of the Vargas Project, University of New Mexico   Pablo Abeita of Isleta Pueblo was one of the most important Native leaders in the Southwest in his day. Abeita was an effective advocate for Isleta and other pueblos in New Mexico, testifying before Congress on several occasions.…

EnchantOrama’s Lenses: Photographs from the New Mexico Magazine Collection

In-person walking tour 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Hannah Abelbeck Curator of Photographs and Archival Collections New Mexico History Museum   The “EnchantOrama! New Mexico Magazine Turns 100” exhibition is currently on display at the New Mexico History Museum through February 16, 2024.   Collections Curator Hannah Abelbeck will discuss the EnchantOrama! exhibition and share a behind the scenes view into the Museum’s…