What caused the first U.S. appointed governor of the New Mexico Territory to literally lose his head in Taos? Did the vigilantes who hung a man in the 1880's for killing the editor of the Socorro Sun newspaper have the right person? What caused the political assassination of a local figure in Santa Fe during the 1890's?
New Mexico's turbulent history is the focus of a lecture by the director of the Center for Regional Studies, Tobías Duran, on Tuesday, March 9 at 2:30 pm at the Willard Reading Room in Zimmerman Library.
Duran will discuss the social and political dimensions of U.S. colonialism in the late 19th and early 20 century and how race and class intersected in reform efforts from statehood through the 1940s. He says, "When General Stephen W. Kearny greeted the local population in 1846 he told them he came in friendship. But the relationship between the U.S. army and the majority of the Mexican population was anything but friendly in the beginning."
Duran's lecture is the second in the Richard Etulain Lecture Series in Western Regional Studies. It is co-sponsored by the Center for Southwest Research and UNM Press.
Contact: Karen Wentworth (505) 277-5627
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