Friends of History
Anne 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 her novels, Anne Hillerman includes references to the rich history, landscape and cultures of the Southwest. The interplay of this non-fiction information with the “who…
Bridget 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 state and share the stories behind them. After starting with an old-school road map, Michael Moore has now spent almost 3,000 hours researching and creating…
Robert “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 citizenry, Gallup started out as a railroading and coal mining town with an alcohol-soaked, violent history. As an outsider who embraced the realities of this…
Ellen 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 years following. Her father, Edward Wilder, was part of the team which built the explosives shell for the “Fat Man” nuclear bomb detonated over Nagasaki…
Enrique 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 This will be an extended video presentation. The talk will speak to topics drawn from their 2023 edited book Water for the People which…
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 gave to the world: corn, beans, squash, chiles, tomatoes, potatoes, vanilla and cacao. Prior to 1492, these plants only existed in the Americas. Once these…
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 women pioneers provide details that enrich our understanding of the experience in a way that differs from and enhances the information we get from the…
Anna M. Nogar Professor of Hispanic Southwest Studies Department of Spanish and Portuguese University of New Mexico Adelina “Nina” Otero-Warren became one of five women, and the first Hispanic American, depicted on a U.S. commemorative quarter in 2022. On the occasion of the release of this commemorative coin, Dr. Nogar will speak on Ms.…
This ONLINE ONLY presentation aired on Wednesday, August 3, 2020 at 1200 Noon. Here is the link for the presentation: https://youtu.be/eraUdIyQtkU Virgil Ortiz Artist, Cochiti Pueblo In this lecture, Cochiti artist, Virgil Ortiz takes us on a journey through the processes he uses to create his artwork.…
Dr. Jeanne Abrams, Professor University of Denver Jews, particularly Jewish women, found unprecedented opportunity in the early American West. Jewish women here took advantage of those opportunities well in advance of women in other areas of the country and took leading positions in social welfare, business, education, the professions, and politics while at the same…
Thomas Leech Curator (Retired), Palace Press, New Mexico History Museum In October 2021, more than 30 boxes of records documenting the life and times of artist Gustave Baumann arrived at The New Mexico History Museum. A bequest of the Ann Baumann Trust, it contains correspondence, print and sales records, handwritten notes, scrapbooks, color palettes, woodblocks, photographs…
