College of Arts & Sciences

the University of New Mexico history department hosted the first regional conference under the AHA’s Mellon-funded Career Diversity for Historians initiative. University of New Mexico Distinguished Professor of History Virginia Scharff took part in a...

John L. Kessell, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of New Mexico, is the winner of the 2013 Weber-Clements Prize for Best Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern America, for his volume Miera y Pacheco: A Renaissance Spaniard in Eighteenth-Century...

The UNM History Department celebrates Women's History Month with events beginning on Thursday, March 5 and concluding Monday, March 30.  All events are free and open to the public. For more details on Women's History Month lectures, discussions and...

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....

University of New Mexico Distinguished Professor of History Virginia Scharff is the first author/researcher of “Women and the Myth of the American West,” published in Time magazine.

The Center for the Southwest, in the University of New Mexico history department, announces the 2014 Richard W. Etulain Lecture in Regional History. This year, the event features a conversation with former U.S. Presidential candidate Senator Fred ...

A new series, “Gunslingers,” premiered recently on the American Heroes Channel. The six-part series features the stories of Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickok, John Wesley Hardin and Tom Horn. The series includes both striking ...

Donald Colgett Cutter Sr., UNM professor emeritus of history, died Friday, April 4, at the age of 92. Services are set for Sunday, June 1 at 2 p.m. at Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 114 Carlisle Blvd. SE; with interment at Santa Fe National Cemetery on Monday, June 2 at 10:30 a.m. Cutter's children invite those who would like to celebrate the life and legacy of their father to attend.

The University of New Mexico Department of History, along with the American Historical Association and three other universities, shares in a $1.6 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation aimed at diversifying job opportunities for those who ...

As the saying goes, Life is what happens while we’re busy making plans. In 1941, John Henry Hodges was teaching with the Albuquerque Public Schools while working on his master’s degree in history at the University of New Mexico. He’d completed all ...