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April 17, 2007

NMHR Receives 2007 Heritage Preservation Award

The New Mexico Historical Review, owned and published quarterly by the University of New Mexico, has received the 2007 Heritage Preservation Award of the State Historian for Excellence in New Mexico Heritage Scholarship, announced Durwood Ball, editor.

In his letter, New Mexico State Historian Dr. Estevan Rael-Galvez states that the award honors “the publication's long history of publishing scholarly research and of providing more information on preservation in New Mexico and the Southwest than virtually any other publication.”

The honor came from the Cultural Properties Review Committee, which Rael-Galvez chairs, and the Historic Preservation Division, of the Department of Cultural Affairs.

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