by Monica Young | Jul 29, 2020 | News
Father Eusebio Francisco Kino is moving closer to sainthood. On July 13, 2020, Pope Francis approved the 17th-century Jesuit priest as Venerable – two steps away from sainthood, recognizing in the process Kino’s life of “heroic virtue.” In the...
by Monica Young | Jul 21, 2020 | News
The University of New Mexico (UNM) Repository is a free digital showcase that will appeal to the scholar and enthusiast alike. Administered by University Libraries, this repository serves as a permanent and ever-growing archive of untapped resources. It is maintained...
by Monica Young | Jul 15, 2020 | News
The Anza Society’s accessible park trail project in Tucson has a new name – “La Expedición de Anza, 1775 (LEA).” This outdoor cultural history park depicts the life of a group of 240 people who passed through Tucson in 1775 on their way to California, where they...
by Monica Young | Aug 26, 2019 | News
In July 2019, the Arizona History Museum welcomed Dr. Russell Skowronek from The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and his colleague Richard Johnson to research items in the Arizona Historical Society collections made of copper from the Spanish colonial frontier....
by Monica Young | Aug 24, 2018 | News
Congratulations to SMRC board member Dr. Nicole Mathwich as lead author in her recent article in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology titled “Bureaucratic reforms on the frontier: Zooarchaeological and historical perspectives on the 1767 Jesuit Expulsion...
by Monica Young | Mar 29, 2018 | General, News
Bernard L. “Bunny” Fontana’s An Annotated Bibliography of the Tohono O’odham (Papago Indians), Revised Edition, compiled with the assistance of Michael U. Owens and Tumacácori National Historical Park’s Chief of Interpretation Anita Badertscher, is now hosted on Old...
