Lecture Series

Robert Nott  Journalist, Santa Fe New Mexican Gabriela Campos Photojournalist, Santa Fe New Mexican Robert Nott and Gabriela Campos travelled a significant part of the Santa Fe Trail last year…

Fred Hagstrom Rae Schupack Nathan Professor of Art, Carleton College (MN) A presentation about the incarceration of people of Japanese descent during World War II.  It is based on two…

Rob Martinez New Mexico State Historian State Historian Rob Martinez discusses resistance movements in New Mexico through the ages. Learn about the causes and effects of New Mexicans taking action…

Matt Barbour Deputy Director, New Mexico Historic Sites Research Associate, Office of Archaeological Studies New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs The mountain northeast of Deming, known as Cookes Peak, was…

The Friends of History are happy to offer an encore presentation of Megan Kate Nelson’s lecture, The Civil War in the Far West. Such productions  are being offered periodically by…

Shelby Tisdale. Ph.D Retired Director, Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO Former Director, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe, NM In the first…

 Alison Griffiths, Ph.D Distinguished Professor of Film and Media Studies at Baruch College, The City University of New York   This lecture is an ONLINE ONLY presentation, cosponsored by the…

Janet Farrell Brodie Professor Emerita of US History at Claremont Graduate University On July 16, 1945, just weeks before the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that brought about the…

David C. Beyreis Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences  Saint Mary’s School, Raleigh, North Carolina At the time of his violent death in 1847, Charles Bent was one of the…

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…