By David Joshua Anderson The history of Los Alamos is a fascinating chapter in New Mexico history. Los Alamos is one of the youngest counties in the state and has had a rich and varied past ranging from Indian tribes around 1100, Spanish explorers, ranchers, homesteaders, and one of…
by Estevan Arellano For the early settlers who braved the “Jornada del Muerto,” or Journey of the Dead from Mexico to northern New Mexico in 1598, it was not simply a matter of finding good soil and water to plant in order to survive, it also meant learning to…
An Address Delivered to the New Mexico Association of Museums By Rick Hendricks, Ph.D. New Mexico State Historian I am going to speak today about some of the lessons learned from the launch of the New Mexico Digital History Project in 2005 until mid-2012 when we began a renewal…
Sandra Begay was born into the Náneesht’ézhí Táchii’nii (charcoal streaked people), her mother Cecilia M. Begay’s Clan, and the Tó dích'íinii Clan (bitter water people), her father Edward T. Begay’s Clan, on June 10, 1963, in the town of Gallup, New Mexico. She grew up in a modern setting…
10 1885 By Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint Born to mining engineer Alfred Kidder and his wife Kate Dalliba in Marquette, Michigan, in October 1885, Alfred Vincent Kidder was poised, at age 30, to become one of the leading figures in study of the prehistoric American Southwest. While…
By Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint From 1927 until 1968, James F. Zimmerman and his executive assistant, Tom Popejoy, served successively as president of the University of New Mexico for 39 years, with only a short, two-year interregnum. That has been the longest period of administrative stability that…
7 25 1858 On 25 July 1858 in Jordanville, New York, Lydia McDonald, wife of John McDonald, gave birth to a son, and they named him William Calhoun. One of nine children, William grew up in New York, attending public schools in Herkimer County and the Casenovia Seminary at…
550 548 Perhaps no other educational institution has played a more prominent role in the development of New Mexico's Indian people as the Santa Fe Indian School. First established in 1890 as a venue to assimilate Indians into mainstream American culture, the Santa Fe Indian School has evolved significantly…
Dean Jett Correspondence: New Mexico's Ties to World War II History 6 23 2008
Mexican American writing is a very valuable resource for environmental thought. Mexican Americans' deep historical ties to the land – working the land in sustainable ways – and the narration of these ties in memoirs and novels of the nineteenth and early twentieth century prove invaluable resources for traditional…
