Fragments of the Story: Who was Mary Greene Blumenschein?
By Marcy Botwick There are many stories waiting to be discovered at the New Mexico History Museum, [...]
New Mexico History Museum
The Power of One
By Stephanie PadillaPhotographs courtesy Dr. Michael H. Trujillo In 1948, Pueblo advocate Miguel H. Trujillo [...]
To Market, To Market
A century of harking back and looking forward at Santa Fe’s beloved summer institution Each August, an [...]
Hot In Here
By Paul Weideman “It’s easy in New Mexico to wind down while things heat up,” according to a New [...]
Sam and the Adams Family
By Hannah Abelbeck As a New Mexican, Samuel Adams stands out. Of African American heritage, Adams arrived in [...]
Pasó por Aquí
By Dr. Alicia M. Romero “For through the lack of expert help we made many detours, wasted time from so [...]
History with a Grain of Salt
By Molly Boyle According to an old saw, history is written by the victors. But depending on who gets to [...]
Hides in Plain Sight
By Rick Hendricks Historians and buffs of the Plains and the Southwest likely know the tragic story of the [...]
I Rebuilt the Palace of the Governors at My Own Expense
By Cordelia T. Snow and Stephen S. Post “I rebuilt the Palace of the Governors at my own expense.” [...]
Heavy Meta
How do you design an exhibit about exhibits? In late 2017, Museum Resources Director David Rohr came to us at [...]
Double Take
BY HANNAH ABELBECK, JENNIFER DENETDALE, AND DEVORAH ROMANEK More than a hundred and fifty years ago, probably [...]
On Display in Santa Fe (Part II)
BY DAVID ROHR (You can read Part 1 here). On a warm evening in August of 1917, a group of prominent painters [...]
On display in Santa Fe (Part I)
BY DAVID ROHR Sylvanus Morley was starting to worry. It was November 1912—only days away from the public [...]
Sacrifice Lost . . . and Found
BY DEVORAH ROMANEK Only a few years before the United States joined the Great War as it was raging in Europe, [...]
Photo Synthesis
BY HANNAH ABELBECK One hundred and fifty years ago, thousands of Navajo people undertook a second arduous [...]
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