By Nancy Brown-Martinez and Rachel WhittJanuary 13, 2022
The town of Tome, best known for its popular El Cerro de Tomé Good Friday pilgrimage, is now celebrating a different historic resurrection. The town map and patent were recently restored and digitized by archivists at the UNM Center for Southwest...
Each year, the University Libraries and the Center for Regional Studies funds graduate fellowships for the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections (CSWR). The Graduate Fellows work alongside full-time staff to process special collections,...
The University of New Mexico’s Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections (CSWR) was chosen to receive funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) as part of its launch of the Doris Duke Native Oral History Revitalization...
The Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections (CSWR) is proud to announce the line-up for the spring 2021 People and Places Lecture series. In accordance to social distancing guidelines, the lecture series will take place online through...
A woman forced underground during political upheaval in Mexico, separated from her four children who were sent to safety, and later deported from her own country for “subversive writing” – what sounds like a suspenseful plot is actually the real-life...
What do wedding photos, dance cards, queer memorabilia and the infamous Love/Lust poem have in common? That’s the question UNM archivists will answer at an upcoming Valentine’s Day event.
Love in the Archives is happening Feb. 14 at the Center for...
The Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections in Zimmerman Library has opened a new exhibit, “Life and Times Along Route 66.” The exhibit is located in the Frank Waters Room 105 in Zimmerman Library and will be up through Dec. 2016.
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Alfonso Domingo will discuss his book La Balada de Billy el Nino on Tuesday, May 3 at 12 p.m. in the Frank Waters Room 105 at Zimmerman Library. The lecture will be in Spanish. He will be introduced by Professor Emeritus Enrique Lamadrid in the UNM...
Graduate Fellows at the College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences work alongside full-time staff at the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections each year to process some of the special collections. That involves sorting and...
“It’s about love, loving my listeners, being a servant to them, creating a picture of the games in their minds.” That’s how Connie Alexander sums up his nationally-known sports announcing radio-TV career as a leading innovator of play-by-play...