Please join Scott Andrews, Founder of The Wisdom Archive as he shares his video portrait of the work of Northern New Mexican Elders, as part of our Friends of History Lecture Series. Since 2014, The Wisdom Archive has been producing video portraits of masters of traditional culture for a YouTube archive. Primarily focusing on the […]

Please join Hannah Abelbeck, Photo Archivist, with the New Mexico History Museum, for an online talk featuring Sam Adams, an African American Civil War veteran who later settled in New Mexico, as part of our Friends of History lecture series. The presentation will put Adams in context with his contemporaries and explores the difficulty of […]

Most Americans believe that the Civil War took place only in the East—Gettysburg, Atlanta, Appomattox—and that the fight involved only the North and the South. Beginning in the summer of 1861, however, the U.S. and Confederate armies clashed with each other and with Indigenous peoples in New Mexico and Arizona, fighting for control over the […]

Please join the New Mexico History Museum as we celebrate the holiday season with a public open house. Along with the music delights of Schola Cantorum from 11-12, and Guitarist Taj Holliday 1:30-3:30, please visit our Chavez Library from 1-4pm.  To participate in a Photo Archive tour, please call to pre-schedule a time at: 505-476-5107, […]

This talk is drawn from the new, revised and expanded edition of Valles Caldera, A New Vision for New Mexico’s National Preserve, by William deBuys and Don J. Usner, Museum of New Mexico Press, 2021. Usner and deBuys will present a photo-talk on the Valles Caldera National Preserve highlighting the main events, political and ecological issues, of the […]

The talk will provide an overview of the Palace Seen and Unseen exhibit, which integrates documentary records with the material evidence uncovered by more than 100 years of archaeology at the Palace. Through this approach Co-curators, Stephen Post, Cordelia T. Snow, and Alicia Romero guide the visitor through the many changes that occurred to the […]

A joint presentation of two centuries of copper mining at Santa Rita, New Mexico. The speakers will examine the “discovery” of copper, the emergent mining techniques in the 19th century, and the era of open-pit mining. Their discussion will include the technologies, the economics, the workers, the community, and the consequences of the growth of […]

This talk will discuss the way in which Pueblo Indians have fought to preserve tribal sovereignty as it related to issues of land and water from the Spanish Colonial Period to the present day. Case studies of five pueblos will be examined, four in New Mexico and one in Texas: Pojoaque, Nambe, Tesuque, Isleta, and […]

At the turn of the 20th Century, most of the arid land east of Las Cruces, New Mexico was ranch land. Cattle, sheep, and goat ranches filled the Tularosa Basin, the Oscuro Range, and the surrounding countryside. Most of these ranches were small, privately owned pieces of land supplemented by large parcels of federal and […]

When we think of New Mexico history, we sometimes forget that the humans in the narrative have often been dependent on their equine companions. The influence of New Mexico on the history of the horse in the Americas is both fascinating and profound. From the pre-historic ancestors of the horse found here millions of years […]

Richard Ford, Allison Colborne, and Gary Hein have undertaken a study of Royal A. Prentice,  an early  volunteer who contributed valuable archaeological information to the Museum of New Mexico in the first three decades of the 20th century.  Although he published several useful research papers during those years in El Palacio, the quarterly magazine of the Museum of New Mexico, Prentice remains generally unknown […]