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Pardoning Breadwinners, Constructing Masculinities

This talk examines the gendered rhetorical strategies that Territorial Penitentiary inmates deployed in order to claim entitlement to Territorial Governor George Curry's Holiday Pardons between 1907 and 1910.  How did these men-along with destitute parents, ill wives, and "womanly" children-construct and perform Territorial masculinities by evoking claims of industriousness,…

The Alianza Federal de Mercedes: Between Memory and History

In this lecture, Dr. Oropeza explicates two strategies that allow her to address the era of land-grant activism in general and the Alianza\'s Federal de Mercedes\' controversial founder in particular. Dr. Oropeza argues that Reies Lopez Tijerina\'s greatest significance was not as a gun-wielding revolutionary (as so often painted…

Mormon Battalion

Mormon, Kearny, 1846, rebellions, conflicts, revolts, California Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, Department of Cultural Affairs Rick Hendricks, State Historian, State Records Center and Archives 1 A battalion of Mormon Volunteers followed in the wake of General Kearny's 1846 conquest of New Mexico. They left a lasting mark by building…