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The University of New Mexico is helping the National Park Service celebrate 100 years in 2016. UNM is a part of their history through faculty and student projects including a current initiative with the NPS’ National Trails Intermountain Region...

What do Ruben Cobos, Tony Hillerman, U.S. Route 66 and “El Hispano News” all have to do with each other? They are all new collections and digital projects at the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, a part of the University of New Mex

On February 2, 1848, officials from the United States and the Republic of Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo at Guadalupe Hidalgo, a city north of the capital where the Mexican government fled with the advance of U.S. forces, thus ending the ...

Shepherd plays have long been a tradition in New Mexico and Mexico. The combination of singing saints and devils, people with wings - and satire have delighted audiences for centuries. Follow the luminarias and farolitos to Alumni Chapel on Friday, Nov. ...

Late in the summer of 1670, five traders crossed what is now called the Jornada del Muerto on their way to present-day Chihuahua. One of them strayed from the group and soon called out that he had found human remains. After taking a look, one of the men ...

Aaron Salinger, doctoral student in Spanish & Portuguese, and Lloyd Merino, an undergraduate, spent a month this summer on the bicycle project in Granada, Nicaragua.Before heading south, they spent a week raising money. With some help from the Department ...