Friends of History
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.…
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…
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…
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…
Lois Ellen Frank, Ph.D. Chef ; Native Foods Historian Walter Whitewater (Dine/Navajo) Chef Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky is the story of eight plants that Native peoles…