SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
VOICES FROM THE PAST 2026

NEW MEXICO HISTORY IN SIX ACTS
DR. THOMAS E. CHAVEZ

MONDAY NIGHTS AT 6 PM
A PUBLIC PROGRAM GRACIOUSLY ASSISTED BY HOTEL SANTA FE, A PICURIS PUEBLO ENTERPRISE

  January 19 at Hotel Santa Fe
Ancient Societies: Migration, Chaco Canyon, & Mesoamerica

January 26 at Hotel Santa Fe
Spanish Explorers & Settlement: Adobe Cities, Columbian Dream, A Missionary Field

February 2 at La Fonda on the Plaza
Colony of Spain: An Island in the Wilderness, Native Resistance and Accommodation, Nefarious Events and Survival

February 9 at Santa Fe Woman’s Club 1616 Old Pecos Trial
Mexican Interlude: The Day of the Wedding, When Paco Met Horatio Alger, Santa Fe & Old Spanish Trails, Mountain Men, An Invasion from Texas

February 16 at Hotel Santa Fe
U.S. Territory: The Virgin & the Dynamo, A Time of Adjustment, Cowboys & Indians, Civil War; Quest for Statehood

February 23 at Hotel Santa Fe
Statehood: War, Art & Literature, Science & the Bomb, Whither Now?

DR. THOMAS E. CHAVEZ Historian, Research Associate, Latin American & Iberian Institute, University of New Mexico; Former Director, The Palace of the Governors, Museum of New Mexico and Executive Director, National Hispanic Cultural Center; Author: Revolutionary Diplomacy: Spanish Connections and the Birth of the United States; Spain and the Independence of the United States: An Intrinsic Gift: Timeless Caravan, the Story of a Spanish-American Family; An Illustrated History of New Mexico; Quest for Quivira: Spanish Explorers on the Great Plains: 1540-1821; New Mexico Past and Future; A Soliloquy of Some Disconnected Tales; Wake For a Fat Vicar; Chasing History: Quixotic Quests for Artifacts, Art, and Heritage;  A Moment in Time: The Odyssey of New Mexico’s Segesser Hide Paintings

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