Encore Presentation: The Civil War in the Far West
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…
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Lecture Series
Marjorie F. Lambert: Museum of New Mexico’s Curator of Archaeology, 1936-1969
In-person walking tour 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United StatesShelby 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…
Cultural Memory and Amateur Film: The Visual Legacy of the Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial
In-person walking tour 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United StatesAlison 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…
The First Atomic Bomb Test: The Trinity Test in New Mexico
In-person walking tour 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United StatesJanet 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…
Blood in the Borderlands: The Rise and Fall of Charles Bent, 1829-1847
In-person walking tour 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United StatesDavid 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…
EnchantOrama’s Lenses: Photographs from the New Mexico Magazine Collection
In-person walking tour 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United StatesHannah 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…
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 StatesRick 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…
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 StatesDr. 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…
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 StatesNick 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.…
The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis
In-person walking tour 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United StatesMelissa 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…
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…
Diaries of Pioneer Women
In-person walking tour 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United StatesNorma 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…