Sunshine and shadows in New Mexico's past
Subtitle: the statehood period, 1912-present
By: edited with an introduction by Richard Melzer
Publisher: Rio Grande Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Los Ranchos, N.M
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781936744015
Subjects: Politics and government; Group identity; Statehood (American politics); Social conditions; Centennial celebrations; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Statehood; title: "Safe and Sane" for Statehood : Making the New Mexico State Constitution of 1910 / Richard Melzer; title: The Significance of Statehood in New Mexico History : by previous & current State Historians (Cultural Consequences / Stanley M. Hordes; Religion and Education / Robert J. Tórrez; The Franchise / Rick Hendricks); title: Politics; title: Albert B. Fall : An American Success Story with an Unhappy Ending / David H. Townsend; title: Soledad Chávez de Chacón : New Mexico's First Hispanic Woman Governor, 1924 / Richard Melzer; title: Our Governors and their Ladies during the Great Depression / Kathryn A. Flynn; title: Camp Capitan : A Depression Era Educational Camp for Unemployed Young Women / Lynn Adkins; title: Making New Mexico Modern : Political Reforms of the 1960s / R. David Myers; title: War; title: Potato Patriotism : New Mexico Women and the Home Front / David V. Holtby; title: The Ranger and the Saboteur / John P. Wilson; title: They Moved In and Took Over : The Army Specialized Training Program Invades New Mexico State College / Martha Shipman Andrews; title: Los Alamos to Trinity : New Mexico and the Creation of the Atomic Bomb / Jon Hunner; title: Ironies of World War II : Hawai'i Japanese Internee Fathers and American Military Sons in Santa Fe / Gail Y. Okawa; title: Life with New Mexico's Mule King : John Prather of the Tularosa Basin / Arleen Gaba; title: Law, Order, and Mysteries; title: New Mexico and the Titanic / Steven Andrews; title: From Six-Guns and Horses to Helicopters and Computers : New Mexico Law Enforcement, 1912-2012 / Don Bullis; title: Culture and Counterculture; title: Chile, Frijoles, and Bizcochitos : Recording, Preserving, and Promoting New Mexico's Culinary Heritage, 1890-1940 / Cheryl J. Foote; title: Reviving the Santa Fe Fiesta : Edgar Lee Hewett and the Battle for Control / Nancy Owen Lewis; title: A Gift to the Community : Santa Fe's Lensic Theater / Richard A. Sax; title: The Counter-Culture in New Mexico / Arthur Kopecky; title: Minorities and Racism; title: Senator Holm O. Bursum and the Bursum Bill / Carry G. Osborne; title: The Trauma of History Among Native Americans : A Modern Haunting / H. Henrietta Stockel; title: The Ku Klux Klan in Roswell : Pioneer Klan No. 15, 1924-1934 / Elvis E. Fleming; title: La Mano Negra : A Personal Search for the "Black Hand" in Tierra Amarilla / Robert J. Tórrez; title: Alianza Federal de Mercedes : "Rousers of the Rabble" in the New Mexico Land Grant War / David Correia; title: Women; title: Dr. Bertha Dutton and Her Dirty Diggers / Jo Tice Bloom; title: Women's Clubs / Charles B. Stanford; title: Home on the Range : Growing Up on the Ranch in Union County, 1939-1949 / Carleen Crisp Lazzell; title: Health and Science; title: Adrift at Fort Stanton : Treating Consumptive Sailors / Nancy Owen Lewis; title: New Mexico's Chile Kings : Fabián García and Roy Nakayama / Rick Hendricks; title: Infrastructure; title: The Ocean to Ocean Highway or New Mexico's Other Historic Highway / Spencer Wilson; title: Sports; title: The National Pastime in the Land of Enchantment / Gary Herron; title: Appendix: Timeline Since Statehood / Rick Hendricks, Richard Melzer, Michael Stevenson, and Dennis P. Trujillo.