History

A group of 17 historians recently met to assess the turbulent presidency of Donald Trump. Among those helping to compile a scholarly history of the 45th president’s administration is Jason Scott Smith, professor of History at The University of New...

Every year, U.S. News and World Report releases rankings for select university and college programs across the country. Each year it focuses on different types of programs, sometimes ranking sciences and other times humanities, etc. Below are those...

Kimberly Gauderman, associate professor of History at The University of New Mexico, will address “Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation in U.S. Asylum Law” as part of the Feminist Research Institute’s Distinguished Feminist Research Lecture series. The...

A new mural being installed at the UNM Information Technology building celebrates the diversity and history of New Mexico, the state’s rich Native American cultural roots, and how they both have contributed to the development of information...

It was August 28, 1963, when civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic I Have a Dream speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in our nation’s capital. It was delivered in front of some 250,000 people at the "March on...

University of New Mexico Professor Emerita Janet (Jan) Roebuck died on July 5, 2020.  She was the first woman chair of the UNM Department of History and first female senior administrator in the Office of Academic Affairs. Roebuck was a scholar of modern...

A wise man once said “if you don’t learn from the past (history) you are condemned to repeat it” to paraphrase the quote slightly. As UNM’s Communications and Marketing Department (UCAM) undertakes an effort to help educate the campus community involving...

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...

Makayla Grijalva is probably best known at The University of New Mexico for her work at Advance and the Daily Lobo. She’s skilled at multimedia story-telling through writing, shooting and editing video, photography, live video production, and web and...

Two University of New Mexico alumni are among the 59 artists who have been selected to show their work in the State of the Art 2020 exhibit at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and its satellite The Momentary in Bentonville, Ark. Frank Blazquez...