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Silent Witnesses: Exploring the Hidden Histories of Abandoned Locations in NM

57:54

A Place of Thin Veil: Life and Death in Gallup, New Mexico

50:25

Carl Magee: The Editor Who Cracked Teapot Dome, Shot a Judge and Invented the Parking Meter

57:44

A Nuclear Family: Coming of Age in Oppenheimer’s Secret City

54:22

Water for the People: The Acequia Heritage of New Mexico in a Global Context

1:44:26

Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky: The History of Eight Plants Native Peoples Shared with the World

1:01:26

History’s Footprints: Weaving the Past into Modern Mysteries

Besides providing wonderful entertainment, good fiction also expands the reader’s world. In her novels, Anne Hillerman includes references to the rich history, landscape and cultures of the Southwest. The interplay of this non-fiction information with the “who done it and why” aspect of the mystery genre, gives her Leaphorn, Chee, Manuelito novels a texture that is distinctively hers. Hillerman will talk about the way her research into the Navajo’s Long Walk, the exploration of Chaco Canyon, and other elements of New Mexico’s history that has enriched and inspire her books.
Besides providing wonderful entertainment, good fiction also expands the reader’s world. In her novels, Anne Hillerma...

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Silent Witnesses: Exploring the Hidden Histories of Abandoned Locations in NM

57:54

Silent Witnesses: Exploring the Hidden Histories of Abandoned Locations in NM

Просмотров 320Месяц назад

A presentation by Bridget Harrington and Michael Moore. What started as a project to explore New Mexico has grown into a quest to create compelling images of little-known places in the state and share the stories behind them. After starting with an old-school road map, Michael Moore has now spent over 2,600 hours researching and creating a pinned Google Earth map - with layers of settlements, m...

A Place of Thin Veil: Life and Death in Gallup, New Mexico

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A Place of Thin Veil: Life and Death in Gallup, New Mexico

Просмотров 862 месяца назад

Gallup, New Mexico is a place that is disproportionately and simultaneously wonderful and terrible. A reservation border town with a remarkably diverse citizenry, Gallup started out as a railroading and coal mining town with an alcohol-soaked, violent history. As an outsider who embraced the realities of this enigmatic town, Bob Rosebrough came to know many of Gallup’s larger-than-life figures ...

Carl Magee: The Editor Who Cracked Teapot Dome, Shot a Judge and Invented the Parking Meter

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Carl Magee: The Editor Who Cracked Teapot Dome, Shot a Judge and Invented the Parking Meter

According to one of his obituaries, no man left so deep a mark on New Mexico in so short a time as Carl Magee. The rabble-rousing lawyer arrived in Albuquerque in 1919 and bought the Albuquerque Journal, hoping to fulfill his life-long dream of running a “truth-telling” newspaper. Soon he was at war with the state’s political machine. Within a few years, Magee was forced to sell the Journal and...

A Nuclear Family: Coming of Age in Oppenheimer’s Secret City

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A Nuclear Family: Coming of Age in Oppenheimer’s Secret City

Просмотров 1383 месяца назад

Ellen Wilder Bradbury-Reid will draw on her memories of growing up as a child in Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, and the early years following. Her father, Edward Wilder, was part of the team that built the explosives shell for the “Fat Man” nuclear bomb detonated over Nagasaki in August 1945. He had told her they were doing something that had never been done before…which made a big im...

Water for the People: The Acequia Heritage of New Mexico in a Global Context

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Water for the People: The Acequia Heritage of New Mexico in a Global Context

Просмотров 1454 месяца назад

Water for the People features twenty-five essays by world-renowned acequia scholars and community members that highlight acequia culture, use, and history in New Mexico, northern Mexico, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Spain, the Middle East, Nepal, and the Philippines, situating New Mexico’s acequia heritage and its inherent sustainable design within a global framework. Enrique Lamadrid is a Distingui...

Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky: The History of Eight Plants Native Peoples Shared with the World

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Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky: The History of Eight Plants Native Peoples Shared with the World

Просмотров 1175 месяцев назад

Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky is the story of eight plants that Native peoples gave to the world: corn, beans, squash, chiles, tomatoes, potatoes, vanilla, and cacao. Prior to 1492, these plants only existed in the Americas. Once these plants were introduced to cultures of the world outside of the Americas these cuisines were changed forever This is the story of the history of these plants in Nati...

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Diaries of Women Pioneers

Просмотров 1526 месяцев назад

A lecture by Norma Libman. The journey West was perilous and exciting. The journals kept by women pioneers provide details that enrich our understanding of the experience in a way that differs from and enhances the information we get from the writings of the men. The women prepared the meals, healed the sick, kept track of the children, counted the dead and the miles traveled, and drove the wag...

The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis

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The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis

Просмотров 1358 месяцев назад

Willa Cather and Edith Lewis lived together in New York City for nearly forty years. While Cather built her career as a novelist, Lewis worked as a magazine editor and advertising writer while also, behind the scenes, editing Cather’s fiction. This lecture will give an overview of their personal and creative partnership as recovered in The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Will...

Crosses of Iron: The Tragic Story of Dawson, New Mexico and Its Twin Mining Disasters

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Crosses of Iron: The Tragic Story of Dawson, New Mexico and Its Twin Mining Disasters

Просмотров 4489 месяцев назад

In October 1913, 261 miners and two rescuers died when a massive explosion ripped through a mine operated by Phelps, Dodge & Co. in Dawson, N.M. Ten years later, a second blast claimed the lives of another 120 miners. Today, all that remains is a cemetery marked by a sea of white iron crosses memorializing the nearly four hundred miners killed in the two explosions-and a vibrant community that ...

Illusions of Empire: The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

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Illusions of Empire: The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Просмотров 54410 месяцев назад

During the Civil War, Mexico's North overlapped with the U.S. Southwest in the context of diplomacy and military operations. A disparate group of historical actors vied for power and control along the U.S.-Mexico border: Union and Confederate army officers and political leaders, regional Indian tribes, diplomatic agents, and territorial officials. Their unconventional approaches to foreign rela...

Pablo Abeita: The Life and Times of a Native Statesman of Isleta Pueblo, 1871-1940

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Pablo Abeita: The Life and Times of a Native Statesman of Isleta Pueblo, 1871-1940

Просмотров 60311 месяцев назад

Pablo Abeita of Isleta Pueblo was one of the most important Native leaders in the Southwest in his day. Abeita was an effective advocate for Isleta and other pueblos in New Mexico, testifying before Congress on several occasions. An articulate orator with a biting sense of humor, Abeita, fought successfully for Native rights to their ancestral lands and water. Rick Hendricks is a former state h...

EnchantOrama’s Lenses: Photographs from the New Mexico Magazine Collection

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EnchantOrama’s Lenses: Photographs from the New Mexico Magazine Collection

Просмотров 128Год назад

In conjunction with New Mexico History Museum’s exhibition “Enchantorama! New Mexico Magazine Turns 100,” archives curator Hannah Abelbeck will give you a look-see into the New Mexico Magazine Photo Collection. The talk will overview photo themes featured in the exhibit, introduce the rest of the collection not on display, dive deep into a few interesting frames, and draw attention to the visua...

Blood in the Borderlands: The Rise and Fall of Charles Bent, 1829-1847

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Blood in the Borderlands: The Rise and Fall of Charles Bent, 1829-1847

Просмотров 502Год назад

A lecture by David C. Beyreis At the time of his violent death in 1847, Charles Bent was one of the most powerful men in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. He first came to New Mexico in 1829 and rapidly became an economic powerbroker in the region. Bent and his close associates used intermarriage with prominent local women to expand their business and political connections in New Mexico and the sout...

The First Atomic Bomb Test: The Trinity Test in New Mexico

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The First Atomic Bomb Test: The Trinity Test in New Mexico

Просмотров 723Год назад

On July 16, 1945, just weeks before the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that brought about the end of World War II, the United States unleashed the world’s first atomic bomb at the Trinity testing site located in the remote Tularosa Valley in south-central New Mexico. Janet Farrell Brodie explores the history of the Trinity test and those whose contributions have rarely, if ever, been ...