The 1779 Smallpox Outbreak: Up the Camino Real
Colin G. Calloway
John Kimball Jr. 1943 Professor of History
Professor of Native American Studies
Dartmouth College
Free – $25.00
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Royal A. Prentice: Pioneer Archaeologist in Eastern New Mexico
Richard I. Ford
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology & Botany, University of Michigan
Alison Colborne
Librarian, Laboratory of Anthropology, MIAC
Gary Hein
Volunteer, Office of Archaeological Studies
Free – $25.00
Hoofbeats through History: The Story of the Horse in New Mexico
Cynthia Culbertson Author, Curator, Horse Expert When we think of New Mexico history we sometimes forget that the humans in the narrative have often been dependent on their equine companions.…
Free
Home on the Range: From Ranches to Rockets
Leah F. Tookey Curator of History, New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum At the turn of the 20th century, most of the arid land east of Las Cruces, New…
Pueblo Indian Sovereignty
Rick Hendricks State Records Administrator, New Mexico Former New Mexico State Historian This talk will discuss the way in which Pueblo Indian have fought to preserve tribal sovereignty as it…
Santa Rita, New Mexico: Two Centuries of Copper Mining
Chris Huggard, Ph.D. Professor of History, Author Terrence M. Humble Local Historian, Preservation Activist, Former Miner This presentation will offer a synopsis of two centuries of copper mining at Santa…
Palace Seen and Unseen: A Convergence of History and Archaeology
In-person walking tour 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United StatesStephen Post Research Associate, New Mexico Office of Archaeological Studies The talk will provide an overview of the Palace Seen and Unseen exhibit, which integrates documentary records with the material…
The Apache Treaty of 1852
Jeffrey P. Shepherd, Ph.D. Professor of History, University of Texas El Paso This presentation focuses on the Apache Treaty of 1852, which is the only treaty negotiated solely with Apaches…
Ghost Towns of the Southwest
Robert L. Spude, Ph.D. Regional Historian (retired), NPS Dr. Spude will take the audience on a tour of some of his favorite ghost towns around the Southwest and discuss their…
The Santa Fe Trail: When Horatio Alger Met Paco
In-person walking tour 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United StatesThomas E. Chavez Director (Retired), New Mexico History Museum; Historian The Santa Fe Trail can be of interest on many levels; from tracing its ruts, reading the journals of those…
The Valles Caldera, Then, Now, and to Come
In-person walking tour 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United StatesWilliam DeBuys …
The Civil War in the Far West
ONLINE - April 6Megan Kate Nelson Author and Historian Most Americans believe that the Civil War took place only in the East—Gettysburg, Atlanta, Appomattox—and that the fight involved only the North and the…
Free – $20.00