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Historic Environment Education: Using Nearby History in Classrooms and Museums
Historic Environment Education (HEE) utilizes local resources to teach and do history. By focusing on the local pasts and peoples and on the nearby environment, HEE brings history to life in classrooms and museums for the general public. The strategy is essentially a public history for the classroom, employing three core public history methodologies to engage students in local resources: living history, oral history, and heritage preservation. HEE is now practiced in countries in Africa, Europe, and the Americas, where local history and heritage provide the foundation for an experienced exploration of the past.
Journal Article
Preserving Hispanic Lifeways in New Mexico
Essayist and social commentator Richard Rodriguez observes that there is no one name for people of Spanish descent. Since Hispanic is an English name, Rodriguez observes, it aptly illustrates the nature of Spanish descendants in the United States, who are a complex minority in an Anglo world.1 Granted, in other parts of the United States, Latino and Latina are often preferred terms for identifying people of Spanish descent, but for this article, the terms Hispanics and Nuevo Mexicanos will be used to describe New Mexicans of Spanish descent. According to Forrest, The more pragmatic economic origins of the Hispanic New Deal derived from a desire to preserve the native cultures as lucrative tourist attractions and prevent the villagers from becoming a rootless, landless population permanently dependent upon federal relief.7 The New Deal launched many initiatives that put local people to work as woodcarvers and furniture makers, and also sent Works Progress Administration photographers like Russell Lee and John Collier, Jr. to document many of the rural villages.8 The federal programs provided some relief, but often a paternalistic attitude prevailed. 9 Todays community public history projects must continue to ask this key question. Since the 1960s, the National Park Service (NPS) has actively preserved Hispanic heritage. For adobe structures, exterior cement stucco (introduced in the 1930s) locks moisture inside the walls. Since adobes are merely sun-dried mud bricks, they erode when in contact with water, and especially at ground level, adobe walls crumble away.
Journal Article
Centennial: Statehood bid faced many hurdles
[...] we were joined with Arizona in a troublesome alliance that further prevented a smooth passage into a union. [...] on June 20, 1910, President William H. Taft signed an enabling act which authorized the territories of New Mexico and Arizona to call for constitutional conventions.
Newspaper Article
Acequia: Water Sharing, Sanctity, and Place
Hunner reviews Acequia: Water Sharing, Sanctity, and Place by Sylvia Rodriguez.
Book Review
Family secrets: The growth of community at Los Alamos, New Mexico, 1943-1957
In 1943, an instant city arose on the high desert plateau of Northern New Mexico. During World War II, this city created not just the atomic bomb, but a community. In an atmosphere of secrecy and wartime urgency, the men, women, and children of the Army post at Los Alamos struggled with shortages, isolation, suspicion, and intense pressure not just to work, but live in strange new land where the federal government subsidized everything and where even six-year-olds obtained security clearances. \"Family Secrets\" narrates the development of the community at Los Alamos from 1943 to 1957, from its war years through the instability of the late Forties to the intense debates over the hydrogen bomb. The dissertation concludes with the opening up of the city in 1957 as security passes no longer were needed for entry into the residential areas and the fences surrounding those parts of the town were removed. Two key themes emerge in \"Family Secrets.\" First, secrecy, not just at the laboratory but throughout the community, dominated the lives of the people on the Hill. How did husbands, wives, and children respond to the enforced silence of Army security during the war and national security after the war? The second key issue revolves around safety in the community. With the laboratory handling toxic materials, what safeguards were installed to protect the health of their families in the nearby residential areas? In addition to creating nuclear weapons to safeguard the nation in the arms race with the Soviet Union, Los Alamos also established a model suburban community, complete with ranch-style homes and a modern shopping mall, to offer an alternative vision of the future of the Atomic Age to an anxious nation. \"Family Secrets\" is a social history of a unique but intensely important outpost on the technological frontiers of the Cold War. In addition to harnessing the atom for military uses, Los Alamos became a fountain of hope to counter the fear of a nuclear Armageddon as it showcased the possibilities of an atomic utopia.
Dissertation
Larger than Life: New Mexico in the Twentieth Century
Hunner reviews Larger Than Life: New Mexico in the Twentieth Century by Ferenc M. Szasz.
Book Review