Diaries of Pioneer Women
ONLINE ONLY 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…
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Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky: The History of Eight Plants Native Peoples Shared with the World
ONLINE ONLY NM, United StatesLois 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…
Water for the People: The Acequia Heritage of New Mexico in a Global Context
ONLINE ONLY NM, United StatesEnrique 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 …
A Nuclear Family: Coming of Age in Oppenheimer’s Secret City
ONLINE ONLY NM, United StatesEllen 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…
A Place of Thin Veil: Life and Death in Gallup, New Mexico
ONLINE ONLY NM, United StatesRobert “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…
Silent Witnesses: Exploring the Hidden Histories of Abandoned Locations in New Mexico
ONLINE ONLY NM, United StatesBridget 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…
History’s Footprints: Weaving the Past into Modern Mysteries
ONLINE ONLY NM, United StatesAnne Hillerman Author This presentation was recorded live on 19 September 2024 at the New Mexico History Museum. Besides providing wonderful entertainment, good fiction also expands the reader’s world. In…
Carl Magee: The Editor Who Cracked Teapot Dome, Shot a Judge and Invented the Parking Meter
ONLINE ONLY NM, United StatesJack McElroy Newspaper Editor and Journalist (Retired) Author Carl Magee arrived in Albuquerque in 1919 and bought The Albuquerque Journal, then launched The Albuquerque Tribune. The newspaperman was soon at…
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