COMMUNITY ARCHIVING: THE LIVING ARCHIVE
“The Living Archive” is the third installment of our Starting Conversations series on Community Archiving. In this session, facilitator Shane Flores is diving into questions about community archiving and community engagement. His guests Katy Gross and Isabel Trujillo draw conclusions around what…
THE MANHATTAN PROJECT
This session was the final part in our Starting Conversations series “History, Memory and Public Space,” which investigated how historical narratives are shaped within communities of diverse perspectives. Facilitator Raffi Andonian specifically examined how public sites and community memory play a…
MIGUEL TRUJILLO
By Gordon Bronitsky
“What was it about the postwar situation in New Mexico that encouraged Indians – and Trujillo in particular — to push for the right to vote?”
AMERICA’S CONSTITUTION: A MACHINE THAT DOES NOT RUN BY ITSELF
By Christian Fritz
“The protection of democracy is not simply the obligation of elected officials and the courts. Rather, the preservation of constitutional democracy rests on the willing engagement and widespread participation of the people…”
INVIGORATING METAMORPHOSIS
By Jack Loeffler
“The flow of Nature has carried me through many rapids as I row my way through my decades. Running rivers in my own raft has inspired the enduring metaphor of my lifetime.”
WHY IS EL PASO IN TEXAS?
By Ellen Dornan
“Today, Southern New Mexicans frequently cross the border to El Paso, TX to enjoy shopping and entertainment, perhaps appreciating the culture without understanding the long history of why El Paso feels so much more familiar than other Texas communities. Arguably, El Paso is the oldest New Mexican settlement. So how did it end up in Texas?”
HISPASIAN
By Melissa Auh Krukar
“The questions are always the same: ‘Where are you from?’ or worse, ‘Where are you really from?’ or worse yet, ‘What are you?'”
GROWING UP “COYOTA” IN NEW MEXICO
By Nicolasa Chávez
“Did being a coyote make me any less New Mexican? What exactly did it mean to be a ‘Coyota’ in New Mexico?”
MAP OF THE INDIAN TERRITORY, NORTHERN TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO, SHOWING THE GREAT WESTERN PRAIRIES
By Ellen Dornan
“Josiah Gregg’s 1844 map is ostensibly included in Commerce of the Prairies to help the gentle reader follow the ‘Wild West’ adventure to an exotic, foreign destination, but that neutrality is quickly belied by a closer look.”
NEW MEXICO STUDENTS ACHIEVE AWARDS, RECOGNITION IN NATIONAL COMPETITION
NEW MEXICO STUDENTS ACHIEIVE AWARDS, RECOGNITION IN NATIONAL COMPETITION WHAT: National History Day Awards Announcement WHERE: Smithsonian Learning LabCONTACT: New Mexico History Day State Coordinator, Heather McClenahan SHARE: The New Mexico History Day program recently participated in the 2021 National History Day national contest, which was held virtually this year. New Mexico had fifty-eight students from […]