Musings on the Navajo Nation For most of my career as a scholar, I have been interested in the myriad ways that the Diné/Navajos have been represented by generations of travelers, writers, anthropologists, federal policy makers, and historians. The representations of Diné have had a significant impact on our…
With glass bottles honeycombed into rammed earth walls, futuristic Earthships have the look of a utopian vision made real. With glass bottles honeycombed into rammed earth walls, futuristic Earthships have the look of a utopian vision made real. And in many ways they are. Constructed with natural and recycled…
On January 6, 1822, Santa Fe celebrated New Spain’s independence from Spain in a gala ceremony with church services, processions, pageantry, the firing of guns and ringing of bells. Soon afterward Governor Facundo Melgares penned a vivid and detailed description of this event for the official government newspaper, the…
Ted Martinez was born in 1936 in the depth of the Great Depression. He was born in Martineztown, a part of Albuquerque formerly known as “Dog Town,” because of the numerous dogs in the area. By James O’Leary Sponsored by the Paul C. S. Carpenter History Project and funded…
Bishop Tamaron’s Visitation to New Mexico-1760 Dr. Pedro Tamarón y Romeral, sixteenth bishop of Durango, set forth on the first of a series of episcopal visitations, during which he covered a large part of his vast diocese. The Pope and the King had both called for the existing diocese…
Transcontinental Air Transport plane crashes on Mt. Taylor, 1929 1929 Airliner Crash on Mt. Taylor Falls off the FAA Historical Radar Screen By Mark Thompson Albuquerque: Present at the Birth of Commercial Aviation The Associated Press said it was the first crash on a regular commercial land route. The…
U.S. colonialism in the Philippines and in the U.S. Southwest have seen the exclusion of Filipino veterans and Native American veterans from historical narratives. On April 9, 1942, after the Battle of Bataan, Japan’s Imperial Army forced approximately 70,000 U.S. and Filipino captive soldiers to march more than 75…
For many years the name Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell was an emotional lightning rod in New Mexico. In recent years, it has been less so. Maxwell himself has been dead for over 130 years, and the land grant that bore his name has been sold off in small parcels and…
This research examines Juana Lujan Gomez del Castillo and asks whether there are two Juana Lujans or one? The founder of the Gomez family in New Mexico could be one woman, but both stories are compelling and stand the test of time. LUJÁN-GÓMEZ del CASTILLO —Promising Lead Juana Luján…
Just fourteen weeks after the accident at Three Mile Island, in Pennsylvania, thirty four years to the day after the first atomic test explosion at Trinity, New Mexico, the largest, by volume, single release of radioactive poisons in the history of United States occurred in the town of Church…
