History

University of New Mexico Distinguished Professor of History Virginia Scharff is the first author/researcher of “Women and the Myth of the American West,” published in Time magazine.

The Center for the Southwest, in the University of New Mexico history department, announces the 2014 Richard W. Etulain Lecture in Regional History. This year, the event features a conversation with former U.S. Presidential candidate Senator Fred ...

A new series, “Gunslingers,” premiered recently on the American Heroes Channel. The six-part series features the stories of Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickok, John Wesley Hardin and Tom Horn. The series includes both striking ...

Donald Colgett Cutter Sr., UNM professor emeritus of history, died Friday, April 4, at the age of 92. Services are set for Sunday, June 1 at 2 p.m. at Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 114 Carlisle Blvd. SE; with interment at Santa Fe National Cemetery on Monday, June 2 at 10:30 a.m. Cutter's children invite those who would like to celebrate the life and legacy of their father to attend.

The University of New Mexico Department of History, along with the American Historical Association and three other universities, shares in a $1.6 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation aimed at diversifying job opportunities for those who ...

As the saying goes, Life is what happens while we’re busy making plans. In 1941, John Henry Hodges was teaching with the Albuquerque Public Schools while working on his master’s degree in history at the University of New Mexico. He’d completed all ...

Brenda E. Stevenson, UCLA department of history, presents the 2014 C. Ruth and Calvin P. Horn Lecture, "Rethinking the L.A. Riots of 1992: Contested Images of the 'Female' in the Murder Trial of Soon Ja Du," on Thursday, April 17 at 5:30 p.m. at ...

University of New Mexico History Professor Margaret Connell-Szasz was installed as president of the Western History Association at the organization's recent conference in Tucson, Ariz.  The WHA has more than 1,100 members and UNM has one of the ...

The University of New Mexico Institute for Medieval Studies hosts its 28th Spring Lecture Series, "Medieval Myths and Monsters," a series of six lectures and a concert, Monday, April 15 through Thursday, April 18. The lectures are in Woodward Hall, room ...

Jason Scott SmithJason Scott Smith, University of New Mexico associate professor of history, has been working with a team of scholars to develop a mobile app, "Let's Get Lost: New Deal Murals of San Francisco." "The app is now out of beta testing and is ...