Established in 1929, the University of New Mexico Press publishes creative works and scholarship in several disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, indigenous studies, Native studies, Latin American studies, art, architecture, and the history, literature, ecology, and cultures of the American West. UNM Press is the largest publisher in New Mexico and seeks to represent the culture, history, and stories of the Southwest.
A History of New Mexico, 4th Revised Edition, Teacher Resource Book
The teacher's guide has lesson plans keyed to the state's instructional standards for social studies, answers to section and chapter reviews, four different types of student activity worksheets, tests and answer keys, bibliographies, and resource suggestions.
- Copyright year: 2011
A History of New Mexico Since Statehood, Teacher Guide Book
The Teacher Guide Book on CD for use with A History of New Mexico Since Statehood, will help in structuring lessons, tests, and student activities.
- Copyright year: 2011
Delivering Aid
Implementing Progressive Era Welfare in the American West
Krainz examines local welfare practices, policies, and debates during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in a diverse collection of western communities.
- Copyright year: 2011
Constructing Lives at Mission San Francisco
Native Californians and Hispanic Colonists, 1776-1821
In this finely crafted study, Quincy Newell examines the complexity of cultural contact between Franciscans and the native populations at Mission San Francisco. Records of traditional rituals and lifeways taking place alongside introduced doctrines and practices reveal the various ways California Indians adopted, adapted, and rejected aspects of mission life.
- Copyright year: 2009
Coal Camp Days
A Boy's Remembrance
The coalfields of northern New Mexico are the setting for the remembrances of six-year-old Matias Montaño, a fictionalized version of the author's life in the last years of World War II.
- Copyright year: 2001
Come Up and Get Me
An Autobiography of Colonel Joe Kittinger
Kittinger, joined by author Craig Ryan, documents the heights of his extraordinary aeronautical career.
- Copyright year: 2011
A History of New Mexico, 4th Revised Edition
This updated and revised textbook for the middle school reader is an engaging and balanced account of New Mexico from earliest times to the present.
- Copyright year: 2011
The Singing Bowl
This poetry collection showcases all the features of Joan Logghe's work that have attracted so many readers: her attention to detail, her warmth, humor, and passionate and inclusive social conscience.
- Copyright year: 2011
The Maya World of Communicating Objects
Quadripartite Crosses, Trees, and Stones
Astor-Aguilera argues that the western concept of religion and religious objects is not the framework for understanding Mayan cosmology or practice.
- Copyright year: 2011
Strange Jeremiahs
Civil Religion and the Literary Imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W. E. B. Du Bois
Stewart studies the writings of three American authors who all helped define civil religion through their expressions of the tradition of the jeremiad, or prophetic judgment of a people for backsliding from their destiny.
- Copyright year: 2011