Lecture Series

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…

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…

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…

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.…