By Rick Hendricks On 3 July 1850, Jean Baptiste Lamy was appointed Vicar Apostolic of Santa Fe. In December Lamy passed through New Orleans on his journey westward to New Mexico. A young Spanish priest named Antonio Severo Borrajo happened to be in New Orleans, and his chance meeting…
By Rick Hendricks The traditional view of trade with the commercial centers of Nueva Vizcaya and New Mexico is limited to the triannual mission supply caravan and some limited participation by New Mexico's governors. The reality is much more complex. Frontiers entrepreneurs from such communities as Parral and San…
By Rick Hendricks The honor of installing the first telephone system in New Mexico is often given to Las Vegas merchant Carlos Blanchard, who connected his place of business on the plaza to his home in 1879, just three years after Alexander Graham Bell's invention. In the spring of…
By Rick Hendricks Soccer probably got its start in New Mexico at Camp Cody, near Deming. In mid-July 1917, the War Department designated National Guard troops from the Midwest to form the United States Army's 34th Infantry Division and selected Camp Cody for training the division. In January 1918…
By Rick Hendricks They called themselves the Roswell Lions-Hondo Little League All-Stars, and in August 1956 they were the champions of world. To qualify for the World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, the boys from Roswell, New Mexico, first had to win the district tournament for Southeastern New Mexico; the…
History Scholars Topics and Schedules Speaker Topic Date/Time/Place Elena Friot Remembering New Mexico's War: The Bataan Death March in history and Memory, 1942-2012 18 April 2016 11:00 AM UNM History Department Commons Room Mesa Vista Hall Katherine McCully Abiquiu, New Mexico During the Georgia…
The links on this page cover the curiosity of young people examining the many doors they find in the world. Using the Library of Congress and its resources, we have gathered music, art, literature, film, politics, and of course, history, to help build a strong foundation for learning about…
by Grace Meredith Anyone not intimately acquainted with the history and teaching of the Catholic Church, will find it most difficult to understand the real significance of Spanish history during this early period, and to sense subconsciously much less consciously, the inner organism of the religious and political activities….
General Don Juan Flores de Sierra y Valdes, eleventh governor of New Mexico, was appointed to office by the new viceroy, the Duque de Escalona, in Mexico City in 1641. Because of the serious disputes between the civil and ecclesiastical jurisdictions and the confusing reports from both authorities, Valdes…
A Royalist in Transition: Facundo Melgares, the Last Spanish Governor of New Mexico: 1818‑1822 by Arthur Gomez In August 1818 Viceroy Juan Ruíz de Apodaca, the Conde de Venadito, received documents written by an anonymous visitor to New Mexico. These papers, intercepted by Spanish ambassador to the United States,…
