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The 2012 Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture
Series Takes on a Centennial Theme
Santa Fe - In celebration of our
100th year as a state, the New Mexico History
Museum’s Fray Angélico Chávez History Library is
devoting its 2012 Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture
Series to Centennial speakers. All of the
lectures are held in the JohnGaw Meem Room of
the museum; enter through the Washington Avenue
doors. The lectures are free and, yes, you may
bring a lunch to enjoy.
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The schedule:
Wednesday, Jan. 11:
Richard Melzer, “Political Cartoons and New
Mexico's Struggle for Statehood 1850-1912"
Melzer is a history professor at
the University of New Mexico’s Valencia Campus
and author of several books, including New
Mexico: Celebrating the Land of Enchantment
(Gibbs Smith 2011), an official product of the
state’s Centennial celebration. The book focuses
on the social and political elements through
essays and archival photography.
Wednesday, Feb. 15: Dennis
Reinhartz, “The Graphics of Statehood: The
Mapping of New Mexico"
Reinhartz is professor emeritus
of history and Russian at the University of
Texas at Arlington. His publications include
Mapping and Empire: Soldier-Engineers on the
Southwestern Frontier (University of Texas
Press, 2005). He received the 1996 Adele Mellen
Prize for The Cartographer and the Literati, a
Friends of the UTA Libraries Faculty Award; and
the 1987 Presidio La Bahia Award for The Mapping
of the American Southwest. |
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Monday, March 12: Jon
Hunner, “New Mexico: The Stumble to Statehood”
Hunner is a history professor and
director of the Public History Program at New
Mexico State University. His publications range
from Time Traveling through New Mexico History:
The Spanish Colonial Period (Public History
Program, NMSU, 2004) to Chasing Oppie: J. Robert
Oppenheimer and the Atomic West (University of
Oklahoma Press, under contract).
Wednesday, April 18: Noel
Pugach, “Understanding William Howard Taft: The
President Who Approved New Mexico’s Statehood”
Pugach is a professor emeritus of
history at the University of New Mexico. He has
taught on Jewish history, foreign relations, and
American diplomacy.
Friday, May 4: Robert
Larson, “New Mexico: Early Attempts to Gain
Statehood”
Larson is professor emeritus of
history at the University of Northern Colorado.
He has written books on Populism in the West and
is the author of New Mexico’s Quest for
Statehood, 1846-1912 (University of New Mexico
Press, 1968).
Wednesday, June 13: Brian
Turo, “1912: Statehood for New Mexico and
Arizona”
Turo is a doctoral student of
American history at the University of New
Mexico.
Wednesday, July 18: Fred
Friedman, “The Impact of Railroads on New
Mexico’s Transition from Territory to Statehood,
1880-1914”
Friedman worked as the state’s
Railroad Bureau chief at the Department of
Transportation for 30 years and volunteers with
the Fray Angélico Chávez History Library
organizing its railroad maps.
Wednesday, Aug. 17: Robert
J. Tórrez, "The Struggle for Statehood: The
Search for Law and Order along New Mexico's
`Lawless Frontier’"
Tórrez served as New Mexico’s
state historian from 1987-2000. His books
include A History of New Mexico Since Statehood
(University of New Mexico Press, 2011) and UFOs
Over Galisteo and Other Stories of New Mexico's
History (University of New Mexico Press, 2004).
Wednesday, Sept. 26: David
Holtby, “Four Forgotten Ones in the Struggle for
Statehood: Aldrich, Luna, Hitchcock, and the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union"
Holtby works for the Center for
Regional Studies at the University of New
Mexico. He is retired as editor in chief and
associate director of the University of New
Mexico Press, and in 2006 received the New
Mexico Historical Society’s Edgar Lee Hewett
Award for public service.
Wednesday, Oct. 17: Paul
Hutton, “The Volunteers of the Spanish American
War: New Mexico and its Rough Riders”
Hutton is a history professor at
the University of New Mexico and offers film
classes ranging from “Western Film” to “War on
Film.” Author of numerous books on Western,
military and popular-culture topics, he has
written, appeared in, or narrated more than 150
television documentaries.
Wednesday, Nov. 14: Sandra
Schackel, “New Mexico Women: The Road to
Statehood”
Schackel is a professor emerita
of women’s history and the American West at
Boise State University. Her doctorate is from
the University of New Mexico. Among her
publications is Working the Land: The Stories of
Ranch and Farm Women in the Modern American West
(University of Kansas Press, 2011).
Monday, Dec. 12: Elmo
Baca, “Nuevomexicanos and the Rhetoric of
Statehood”
Baca serves on the board of the
New Mexico Humanities Council and owns a Las
Vegas, N.M., consulting firm that specializes in
downtown revitalization services.
Image above: The then-New
Mexico State Capitol flies the 47-star flag in
1912. The building was renovated with a
Territorial style in the 1950s and now serves as
the Bataan Memorial Building. Photo courtesy
Palace of the Governors Photo Archives. |
