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Gadsden Purchase

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Post date August 30, 2020

Alexander William Doniphan

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Post date August 29, 2020

The name Alexander Doniphan is rarely spoken in New Mexico. I don’t remember hearing it when I took New Mexico history in fifth grade, nor do I remember it during New Mexico history at University. Then again, I don’t remember much from college. Nevertheless, we largely owe to Colonel Doniphan the foundation of most New […]

Learn something about history … and Edith too – Albuquerque Journal

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Post date August 17, 2020

George W. Malone: New Mexico’s first African American attorney

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Post date July 30, 2020

The following was authored by Janice Dunnahoo at the Roswell Daily Record Special to the Roswell Daily Record In honor of Black History Month, we are highlighting and recognizing notable African-American citizens who trailblazed a part of both their own history and our history here in the Southwest, as well as southeastern New Mexico. Today, […]

Senator Albert Bacon Fall

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Post date July 17, 2020

The following article is a lovely history of one of New Mexico’s first US Senators, written by our friends at: New Mexico History Blog Posted on July 16, 2019 by Texoso Albert Bacon Fall was born in Frankfort, Kentucky in 1861. He was the son of William Fall, who had served in the Confederate Army during the Civil […]