History

Who decides what societies remember? Who writes the songs that are passed down from generation to generation? What is the meaning of monuments and how does that meaning develop and change over time? And how does a past event, once overlooked, become...

UNM Associate Professor of History A. K. Sandoval-Strausz has won three scholarly prizes for his article “Latino Landscapes: Postwar Cities and the Transnational Origins of a New Urban America,” which was published last December in the Journal of...

Renown filmmaker Alex Rivera speaks at the University of New Mexico on Monday, Oct. 5. The campus-wide event, “The Ins and Outs of Filmmaking,” begins at 5:30 p.m. in Mitchell Hall, room 102.

Andrew Sandoval-Strausz, associate chair and associate professor of the University of New Mexico’s Department of History, is one of 36 recipients chosen by the National Endowment for the Humanities’ new ‘Public Scholar’ program, an initiative designed to promote the publication of scholarly nonfiction books for a general audience.

University of New Mexico Associate Professor and Associate Chair of History A. K. Sandoval-Strausz will spend the 2015-16 academic year at Princeton University as a Distinguished Fellow in the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and...

Samuel Truett, Associate Professor of History, has been selected as a 2015-16 Fellow at the Institut d’Études Avancées (Institute for Advanced Study) in Nantes, France. 

the University of New Mexico history department hosted the first regional conference under the AHA’s Mellon-funded Career Diversity for Historians initiative. University of New Mexico Distinguished Professor of History Virginia Scharff took part in a...

John L. Kessell, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of New Mexico, is the winner of the 2013 Weber-Clements Prize for Best Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern America, for his volume Miera y Pacheco: A Renaissance Spaniard in Eighteenth-Century...

The UNM History Department celebrates Women's History Month with events beginning on Thursday, March 5 and concluding Monday, March 30.  All events are free and open to the public. For more details on Women's History Month lectures, discussions and...

The University of New Mexico History Department's Center for the Southwest presents the 2015 C. Ruth and Calvin P. Horn Lecture in Western History and Culture, featuring John Gray, director, National American History Museum at the Smithsonian Institute....