A textbook tracing the history of New Mexico's land and people from the Ice Age to the present.
New Mexico's history is presented here for the middle-school reader. The book begins with nine chapters on the Indians, Spanish, and Mexicans prior to 1848; another nine chapters cover New Mexico as a part of the United States.
As war loomed in the spring of 1846, Polk ordered General Zachary Taylor to move his troops in Texas south to the Rio Grande, which Mexico considered an act of war and invasion of its territory. The new Mexican president Mariano Paredes ...
Detailed information on every aspect of New Mexico's past.
Originally published in 1992 and available now only from UNM Press, An Illustrated History of New Mexico combines more than two hundred photographs and a concise history to create an engaging, panoramic view of New Mexico's fascinating past ...
By Isabella's time, many of the kings and queens of Castile had become weak, greedy and power hungry, as had happened in other parts of Europe. King John II and his second wife, Isabella of Portugal, Isabella of Castilla's parents, ...
Drawing on evidence of spatial patterning and geochemical analyses of stone tools across archaeological landscapes, the book examines the distinctive mobile modalities of different human communities, documenting evolving logics of ...
This extensive volume presents New Mexico history from its prehistoric beginnings to the present in essays and articles by fifty prominent historians and scholars representing various disciplines including history, anthropology, Native ...
Eventually blacks worked on farms and ranches, in mines, and on railroads as well as in the military, seeking freedom and opportunity in New Mexico’s wide open spaces. A number of black towns were established in rural areas.
"Compelling and complex . . . Strange and wonderful." —The New York Times Book Review, in praise of McIlvoy's previous fictionI am going to write about the state of New...
In New Mexico—once a Spanish colony, then part of Mexico—Pueblo Indians and descendants of Spanish- and Mexican-era settlers still think of themselves as distinct peoples, each with a dynamic history.