History, Science, Mythology, and the First Americans
By Jim O’Donnell A young woman hurried across the flat, trailing footprints. At times she slipped. At times [...]
Southwest History
The Power of One
By Stephanie PadillaPhotographs courtesy Dr. Michael H. Trujillo In 1948, Pueblo advocate Miguel H. Trujillo [...]
Writing Ourselves Back Into the Story
By Emily WithnallPhotographs by Alanna Romero When Patricia French saw Big Bird building an horno on Sesame [...]
A Century of Antics Onstage and Off
By Jennifer Levin Art Olivas drove a friend to Santa Fe Community Theater and sat in the audience, watching [...]
Hunting Miss Deuel
By James E. Snead On September 1, 1912, Charles Fletcher Lummis—author, “anthropologist,” and [...]
I Change into My Levi’s That I Bought With Last Year’s Potato Harvest Money
By Jim O’Donnell Rosie left for Colorado when she was 6 months old. Her family travelled by covered wagon, [...]
Tracks Through Time
Part 2: The Lamy Branch Line 1880 to presentby Fred Friedman Read part I of this history in El [...]
Excavating the Past and Present
By Robert Quintana Hopkins One email can radically change your understanding of yourself. I received that [...]
Sam and the Adams Family
By Hannah Abelbeck As a New Mexican, Samuel Adams stands out. Of African American heritage, Adams arrived in [...]
A Bid for the Canon
By Dr. Richard I. Ford, Allison Colborne and Gary Hein Attorney Royal A. Prentice (1877-1958) was successful [...]
Tracks Through Time
By Fred Friedman Confessions of a Trespasser Even before I was familiar with the Lamy branch line technically [...]
A Hidden History of the Dead
By Dr. Alysia L. Abbott In an ancient city brimming with monuments to her last 400 years, most of the people [...]
Picturesque, Romantic, Practical
By James E. Snead Susan Elston Wallace was not impressed with Santa Fe. “It is the small boast of the [...]
The Cause of Every American Artist
By Oliver Horn, PhD In May 1921, New Mexico Senator Holm O. Bursum introduced a bill to Congress that would [...]
Blackdom in the Borderlands
By Dr. Timothy E. Nelson, historian and artist Editor’s Preface With widespread reporting on racial [...]
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