In the current reckoning with truths about the past — some of which are not so evident — we have an opportunity to examine the symbols placed at the centers of our communities. Towns and cities have long imbued their plazas and squares with meaning, often by placing steel, stone…

Researching Oñate: A Working Decolonial Bibliography by Vanessa Fonseca Chávez, Ph.D. and Estevan Rael-Gálvez, Ph.D. In 1901, 33 year old lawyer, Eusebio Chacón, already a noted orator, poet and New Mexico’s first novelist, rose to a platform before hundreds in Las Vegas, New Mexico. The crowd had gathered in protest of an inflammatory article by Nellie…

Juneteenth is one of the oldest recognized celebrations commemorating an end to slavery. I learned about it as an undergraduate student with friends who wanted me to know the story and why it mattered. I listened then and have continued to learn. …

I learned from an early age that wisdom sits in places, particularly those places where the stories and people have imbued it with presence and meaning. Savannah, Georgia is special in this way. Layered with history, it is spectacularly beautiful and enchanting. Adding creativity to an already inspired place, the…

Recently, I had the opportunity to watch Pixar’s new animated film Coco. Seeing the reflection of a deep, profound and beautiful heritage was meaningful and yet, mine have never been rose colored glasses. How Native Americans and Latinos are imagined and represented continues to be an issue in society. …

“When it’s truly alive, memory doesn’t contemplate history, it invites us to make it.”— Eduardo Galeano, Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking –Glass World Archives and museums have long served as sites that hold wisdom and the promise to awaken curiosity, imagination and memory. However, more than in buildings…