History Talk Promo by Ana Pacheco
Join Ana Pacheco, the former Santa Fe City Historian (2015–2017), for her monthly presentations as she delves into four centuries of Santa Fe history. Through her thirty-three years as a writer and historian Pacheco has created books, articles, blogs, videos, and five-star walking tours of her beloved hometown. In the last three decades she has pieced together the puzzle that makes Santa Fe the most historically significant city in the U. S.
On November 8, 2025 the Taylor-Mesilla Historic site opened in southern New Mexico. The eighth state monument is located four miles from Las Cruces in the village of Mesilla. The historic site is the culmination of the visionary Doña Ana’s statesman J. Paul Taylor. The Taylor-Romero family legacy dates back to the firt Spanish settlement in New Mexico.
The scourge of tuberculosis during the latter part of the 19th century brought many creative people chasing the cure to Santa Fe. Further north a flat tire resulted in the first art colony in Taos, New Mexico in 1898. Years later this art movement became the Taos modernists which helped to define abstract art in this country.
April 30, 1926 was the day that the numerical designation for U.S. Route 66 was assigned. This year April 30, 2026 will mark the official kick-off for 100th anniversary. Learn about the people that trekked through eight states and three time zones in search of a better life via Route 66, America’s Mother Road.
Catholicism was ingrained in New Mexico’s early history. With the passing of time some of its churches and the people that built them have faded away. Revisiting a foundation of spirituality throughout the state.
The forced conversion of the indigenous to Catholicism by the Spaniards lead to the most historically significant event in New Mexico history with the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. It was the only time in north American history where the oppressed defeated their oppressor.
A wealthy oil heiress, Mabel Dodge Luhan, was a patron to many creative souls in London, Paris and New York. The story of one woman’s cultural impact througout throughouy the world that is still relevant in New Mexico today.
For centuries Hispanic New Mexicans relied on their belief in the saints to get them through their daily lives. A whimsical look at a celestial solution living in today’s crazy world and a guide to salvation.
Winston Churchill once said: “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” An overview of the world today that failed to heed this advice.
Millions of people around the world will venerate the Mexican Madonna on the Catholic feast day of December 12th. The history of Our Lady of Guadalupe and her spiritual impact in the state of New Mexico.
