New Mexico Hispanic Heritage
Heritage New Mexico Project
The Heritage New Mexico research project at the University of New Mexico explores cultural and biological variation in New Mexicans of Spanish-speaking descent.
PBS documentary The Latino Americans
From PBS, check out this website, a companion to a 2013 documentary released in 2013 about Latin Americans. Pictured: Truman awarding a Medal of Honor to Marcario Garcia.
National Register of Historic Places
The Barela - Reynolds House is located in the Mesilla Valley, also known as the J. Paul Taylor House or the Taylor Monument, is on the National Register of Historic Places. Full preservation document available from the National Park Service and photographs from the Library of Congress.
New Mexico traditional "Ranchos" of northern New Mexico
Of the series Teaching with Historic Places, the traditional settlements of northern New Mexico is a great place to learn about the state's history.
Spanish Colonial Research Center at UNM
The Spanish Colonial Research Center at UNM highlights the period of colonial history in New Mexico and patrons can access digital copies of documents from the period through the New Mexico Digital Collections webpage.
Great teaching ideas and videos from the NEA and National Park Service!
There are puzzles, biographies, and printables, as well as lesson plans about Spanish treasure fleets in 1715, Ybor City in Cuba as the cigar capital of the world, and curriculum guides to National parks like Coronado and Tumacácori.
Atlas of Historic New Mexico Maps
The Atlas of Historic New Mexico Maps is a great resource for both the researcher and anyone curious about maps in the Southwest region.
Online Art Exhibits
National Hispanic Cultural Center Ongoing Exhibitions
There are tons of great things over at the NHCC this month! Check out their website for latest exhibitions and events.
Google Cultural Institute:
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the Smithsonian
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Books!Of course, there also books to add to your reading lists!  You can find our collection of these books here
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Frida Kahlo by photographer Gisèle Freund |
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The Making of a Seventeenth-Century Spanish Polychrome SculptureThe polychromed wooden sculpture, which depicts the 16th-century saint known as John of the Cross, has recently undergone technical examination and conservation treatment by the object conservation department at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
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Folk Arts of the SouthwestMuted color schemes are typical of retablos in New Mexico. The above work depicts Saint Michael, is painted on gesso over cottonwood. In keeping with most other retablos the design of this piece is flat and abstract in feeling; decorative motifs like the drapery are simplified. In these respects it is akin to a folk art style; the origins of this type of painting, however, go back to the numerous devotional images painted by followers of the seventeenth-century Spanish painter Bartolome Murillo.
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Music
Latino USA from National Public Radio
Local Music Guide from the Public Library
Juan B. Rael Collection
An online collection of Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande. Collected by various ethnographers from 1900 to 1999, includes religious and secular music of Spanish-speaking residents of rural Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado.
Text Collections
Books available in the Public Library Collection
Hispanic Albuquerque, 1706-1846 by
In anticipation of the tricentennial of Albuquerque's founding in 2006, Hispanic Albuquerque presents an engaging, narrative history of the city from 1706 to 1846, its era as a Hispanic community. Written by the foremost historian of colonial and nineteenth-century New Mexico, this book is an abridgment of his award-winning Albuquerque: A Narrative History, first published in 1982 and long unavailable. Here is history to fascinate and inform. In re-examining the founding of the city, Simmons shows how contemporary land and water rights issues are tied to the original document creating the town. His account of commercial activities and relations with Native Americans is a reminder of the complexity of daily life in the colonial period.
