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One hundred years ago, U.S. President William H. Taft signed the document that made New Mexico the 47th state of the union. UNM is celebrating with a new digital archive that throws open the photo collections of museums throughout the state. The archive ...

Inter American Studies in the University Libraries invites current UNM students to submit research presentation proposals for a colloquium that will coincide with an exhibit titled "On the Line: Living the U.S.-Mexico Border" in Zimmerman Library's ...

Center for Regional Studies Fellows in the Center for Southwest Research Max Fitzpatrick and Ashley Sherry speak about the Inter-Hemispheric Resource Center collection housed in the CWSR. The Inter-Hemispheric Resource Center was very active in New ...

Sue Taylor, the Center for Regional Studies Fray Angelico Chávez Fellow in the Center for Southwest Research in University Libraries talks about an effort by the Spanish government to settle California with orphans in the early 1800's.Taylor explains ...

Brianne Stein, Center for Regional Studies Digitization Fellow in the Center for Southwest Research, talks about the Basque Independent Movement and how it is reflected in the Sam Slick collection via posters and information. Stein enters the Ph.D. ...

Jordan Biro, a Center for Regional Studies George I. Sanchez Fellow at the Center for Southwest Research in University Libraries, gives this talk on her research into the history of the Taos Artists' Colony and on one member of that colony, writer Myron ...

Studies Fellow">Jessica Gardener, the Center for Regional Studies Beatrice Chauvenet Fellow at the Center for Southwest Research in Zimmerman Library talks about the collection of J.B. Jackson, the Father of Cultural Landscape Studies. A collection of ...

Aurore Diehl, the Thomas L. Popejoy Center for Regional Studies Fellow in the Center for Southwest Research in Zimmerman Libraries, discusses her research in university archives as she compares two productions done by the Department of Drama at UNM. ...

It was the late 1970's. Albuquerque was on a growth spurt and the steadily increasing numbers of single and divorced people were becoming frustrated trying to deal with a society that was primarily marriage/family oriented. Marilyn Stutt was working in ...

Local historians working with the University of New Mexico's Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections have saved a significant part of Albuquerque's historical record for the future.Dozens of boxes containing records from the old Atchison ...