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Almost 140 years after his death, the man born Henry McCarty  ̶  but better known as Billy the Kid  ̶  continues to exert a sense of fascination and romance. Two books about the outlaw, who spent the last part of his life in New Mexico, will be...

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....

Ned Blackhawk, photo by Derek JenningsThe University of New Mexico Center for the Southwest in the Department of History announces the 2012-2013 C. Ruth and Calvin P. Horn Lecture in Western History and Culture. Ned Blackhawk, professor of history and ...

Princeton University History Professor Martha Sandweiss is the featured speaker for the 2011-2012 C. Ruth and Calvin P. Horn Lecture in Western History and Culture, presented by the UNM Department of History's Center for the Southwest. Sandweiss ...