Historic Sites
Ghost Towns, Trinity Site, Bureau of Atomic Tourism, Cerrillos Hills Historic Park, Cornerstones Community Partnership Historic Preser, County Courthouse Addresses, Four Corner Marker Photo, Loretto Chapel History, PBS - The West, Pueblo of Santa Ana, The Road North: Camino al Norte
Military
200th and 515th Coast Artillery History, Bataan-Corregidor Memorial Foundation of New Mexic, Buffalo Soldiers, Camel Corps Homepage, Campaign in New Mexico with Colonel Doniphan, Codetalkers Exhibit, Fort Selden, New Mexico, History of Fort Union, Mexican American War, New Mexico Casualties in the Korean Conflict
Native Americans
Chaco Canyon, Pueblo, Anasazis Gave Rise to Pueblos, Athabascan, Four Corners Postcard, Gambler Way, Indigenous Peoples of New Mexico, Marxist Model of Chacoan Prehistory, Memories Come to Us in the Rain and the Wind, Mogollon Mimbres Culture, Prehistoric Peoples of the Desert Southwest, Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Organizations
Doña Ana County Historical Society, New Mexico, Estevanico Society, Hispanic Culture Center, New Mexico Historical Societies, New Mexico Jewish Historical Society, New Mexico Steam Locomotive and Railroad Historica, Spanish Colonial Art Society, Taos County Historical Society
Personalities
Billy The Kid, Kit Carson, Biography of Guadalupe Lupita Gallegos, The Outlaw and the Politician - Las Vegas, New Mex, Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans, William Bent
Santa Fe Trail
Commerce of the Prairies, CyberTrail: The Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe Trail History, Santa Fe Trail Report, The Heart of the Santa Fe Trail, The Interactive Santa Fe Trail, Zebulon M. Pike Expedition Bicentennial
500 Years of Encounters 1492-1992
Events that shaped New Mexico Hispanic arts and crafts.
Acoma Pottery
Traditional designs and techniques. Many photos illustrate historical and current procedures.
Army Corps of Engineers Albuquerque District
Among other information about permits, offers a 118-picture slide show of historical water resources.
Census Bureau Profiles
"Profile" of each county including historical census information, plus a map.
Climate Summaries
From the Western Regional Climate Center, historical summaries of climate including snow fall tables for over 200 sites in New Mexico.
Cuarto Centrennial History Series
Many historical articles about settlement in New Mexico by Juan de Onate in 1598 from the Albuquerque Journal.
Cultural Treasures of New Mexico
Cultural resources documentary project. An infobase of cultural information. Lists not-for-profit museums, state and national parks, historical societies, public archives, libraries, others. Museum of New Mexico project.
Durango Archdiocese Microfilming Project
Rio Grande Historical Collections at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces is microfilming accounts of life from the early 1600's through the Mexican Revolution found in Durango, Mexico. Includes index to rolls.
Executions in the State of New Mexico: The Death P
Includes an overview of the death penalty as applied in New Mexico, and information about the individuals put to death, their crimes, and executions.
Folk Arts of the Spanish Southwest
Discussion of Old World Spanish traditions and native Indian sensibilities. Includes tour of five rooms at the National Gallery of Art.
Friars Aim to Convert, Educate Natives
Relationship of Cortes, Cuauhtemoc and Onate reported. From the Albuquerque Journal.
Gila Wilderness
Geology, history of native inhabitants, other subjects. With photos.
Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Gran
Juan B. Rael Collection of religious and secular music of Spanish-speaking residents of northern New Mexico including essays in both English and Spanish.
Historians Look for Clues in Century-Old Family Fe
About the disappearance of Albert Fountain. An Associated Press story.
Hollister Collection of Southwestern Native Americ
Photos of pots in the collection held at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque with information about each.
Microfilm Records for the State of New Mexico
Sources for historical census data on microfilm, indexed by counties.
Mountain Times
Reprints articles about the Sacramento Mountain area such as "Life as it was in the Sacramentos" from Mountain Times, monthly newspaper located in Timberon.
National Archives and Records - Rocky Mountain Reg
NARA storage facility with records for seven states including New Mexico. Includes historical materials dealing with homesteading, Indian history, mining, and territorial court proceedings. Research can be initiated by email.
New Mexico Culture Net
In addition to general historical information, includes pages on the Civil War in New Mexico with text, photos and sketches, information about artifacts and remains, and essays.
New Mexico History
History of New Mexico by the Department of Tourism.
New Mexico History
From the New Mexico Magazine Vacation Guide.
New Mexico History - New Mexico State University
Covers University history, New Mexico history, links to other public history pages and links to historical editing web pages including the Jack D. Rittenhouse Collection of Photographs from New Mexico.
New Mexico Rock Sites
Links to rock art sites.
New Mexico Wanderings
This site features many of New Mexico's little known and lesser known places and includes maps,regional history, old and current photos, and some very interesting information.
Once Upon a Time in the West - New Mexico and the
History of New Mexico and its Wild West Days with information on the Santa Fe Trail, mining booms, Billy the Kid, and other gunslingers and lawmen-reminders of rowdy mining towns and ghost towns.
Passport Records 1828-1836
Mexican Port of Entry Records taken at Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory. Published by the New Mexico Genealogical Society.
Repositories of Primary Sources: New Mexico
Links to sources of historical materials in New Mexico. Published by the University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives department.
Rewriting Southwestern History
Abstract from the publication "Archaeology", by the Archaeological Institude of America, dealing with the concept of the Great North Road. With map.
Rio Grande Valley Library System
Special collections of the library of interest to anyone doing historical research listed, including the Genealogy Collection, the DAR Lineage Books, and others, for use in the library.
Selected Publications on the Water Resources in Ne
List of publications mostly of the U.S. Geological Survey dealing with water resources, wells, reservoirs, and streams.
Special Collections and Archives
Image database with many historic photos of New Mexico.
Survey of Columbus for the National Park Service
Reports of activities of New Mexico State University faculty and students to record the history of Columbus, New Mexico, including a survey and photographs of historic buildings.
Timeline of New Mexico History
Includes events from 25000BC to 1998, again from the Blue Book.
Victorio Peak Stories
Details of the search for lost and buried treasure from 1990 to August 1992 on Victorio Peak. With historical background information, in 8 parts.
Vital Records
Source for birth, marriage and death records which may be ordered by telephone.
Volcanoes in the North and Central America Region
Includes information about 10 volcanoes in New Mexico, with photos and aerial images, history of each volcano, history of the area. Also offers "Ask a Volcanologist" one could use if researching volcanic sites.
WPA Life Histories from New Mexico
First-person accounts of life in New Mexico collected during the Great Depression and stored at the Library of Congress. Includes Pioneer Stories, oral histories.