This extensive volume presents New Mexico history from its prehistoric beginnings to the present in essays and articles by fifty prominent historians and scholars representing various disciplines including history, anthropology, Native American and Chicano studies. Contributors include Rick Hendricks, John L Kessell, Peter Iverson, Rina Swentzell, Sylvia Rodriguez, William deBuys, Robert J Torrez, Malcolm Ebright, Herman Agoyo, and Paula Gunn Allen, among many others.
Marta Weigle is University Regents Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico, as well as the author and editor of numerous publications including Spanish New Mexico: Spanish Colonial Arts Society Collection (Museum of New Mexico Press).
Frances Levine is director of the New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors.
Louise Stiver is the senior curator of the New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors.