CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
TYPES OF ESSAYS STYLE GUIDE FORMAT RULES CONTACT
Write an essay about someone, some place, some time or some story
TIME PEOPLE PLACE STORY
The Office of the State Historian is seeking contributors to write research essays for the New Mexico Digital History Project based on four themes that explore how wisdom sits in places (place), the significance of events (time), the complexity of the human condition (people) and the transformative power of memory and narrative (story).
Essays on Events in Time
New Mexico is a land of ancient cultural traditions and striking environmental diversity. For thousands of years, humans have traveled through this land of enchantment making and recording history. These events in time chronicle the history of New Mexico in a specific way. The Office of the State Historian is soliciting narrative descriptions of historical time events pegged to specific dates including migrations, inventions, treaties made and or broken, proclamations, wars, marriages, celestial events, floods, droughts, births, comings and goings that mark a moment in time in the history of New Mexico.
Sample Entry
· Los Alamos National Laboratory, November, 1943
Essays on People from our Past
The Office of the State Historian is seeking contributors to write entries for the people section of this project. These biographies may include the famous and not so famous, legendary figures, inventors, explorers, veterans, judges, educators and writers. Among biographies of political figures, we hope to gather entries for every governor of New Mexico, other civil officials, pueblo caciques, railroad workers, and merchants, individuals who were born in other places, but who left their mark on New Mexico like D.H. Lawrence and Archbishop Lamy, Octaviano Larazolo, Francisco “Pancho” Villa and native sons and daughters like Popé, Padre Antonio Jose Martinez, Cleofas Martínez Jaramillo, and Fabiola Cabeza de Baca.
Sample Entry
· Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
Essays on Places
The Office of the State Historian is seeking contributors to write entries on places in New Mexico history and geography. Essays are requested describing towns, villages, pueblos, geographic settings or any place that has been given meaning and identity through time. We hope to receive entries on places real or imagined, places such as Hawikuh, the Zuni village, Cibola, the mythic seven cities of gold, the Trinity Site, site of the first atomic explosion, land grants, or communes, tribal areas or pilgrimage sites. We would especially welcome essays on all communities across the state, from Roswell to Raton and Los Alamos to Silver City.
Sample Entry
Pueblo de Abiquiú - A Genízaro Community
Essays on Stories
The Office of the State Historian is seeking contributors to write entries for our story section. We imagine this section to be all of those stories that don’t easily fit into time, place or people, but can easily overlap. These stories will be placed into various themes as they develop, which may include survival, love, democracy, ingenuity, and trauma. Stories about the cleaning of the acequia might be placed into the theme of democracy.
TYPES OF ESSAYS STYLE GUIDE FORMAT RULES CONTACT