Center for Southwest Research
Welcome! The Center for Southwest Research (CSWR) specializes in interdisciplinary subjects relating to New Mexico, the Southwestern U.S., Mexico and Latin America, as well as rare materials from around the world. Our strengths include Native American, Chicano/Hispano, Spanish Colonial, and environmental history, plus a wide range of locally published and archival materials documenting the region.
Browse the Center for Southwest Research Collections:
- And Yet She Persisted Images
- CSWR Public Programs
- Love in the Archives 2019
- People and Places Lecture Series
- Selected Images from the Albuquerque Tricentennial Exhibit
- The 1976 Women in New Mexico Exhibit by the American Association of University Women - New Mexico
- Willard Lecture Series
- ABQ Free Press
- Audio and Video
- Books
- Coalition for Prisoners' Rights Newsletters
- Gabriel Melendez Papers (MSS 1148): Father Thomas J. Steele Interview Sessions
- Jerry Sisneros Oral History Interviews (MSS 1133 DC)
- Jose A Rivera Papers (MSS 587): Interviews On Migrant Work and Life
- LaDonna Harris Native American Collection
- Native American Oral History Program Interviews
- Nuevo Mexico Profundo Archives
- Puntos de Vista: A Westside Neighborhood Newsletter (1989-1998), Santa Fe, NM
- Sociedad Protección Mutua de Trabajadores Unidos Records
- UNM Black Alumni Oral History Collection
- UNM Curanderismo Traditional Medicine Archive
New Mexico Spanish Language Archival Recovery Project
- Alejandro López Papers and Ethnographic Interviews (MSS-943-BC): Audio Interviews, 1970-1978
- Anselmo Arellano Collection (MSS 1140): Spanish Language Audio Interviews
- Anselmo Arellano Collection (MSS 1140): Spanish Language Video Interviews, 1986-1998
- Aurora Martinez Kane Collection: Interview Transcriptions
- Carnegie Public Library Oral History Project with Spanish Speaking Old Timers (MSS 776), 1973-1978
- Cecilio García Camarillo Papers (MSS 755): Audio Recordings
- El Español de Nuevo México y Colorado Contemporáneos
- Father Albert M. Gallegos Papers: Audio Recordings
- Gabriel Melendez Papers (MSS 1148): Oral History Interviews, 1987-2022
- María Dolores Gonzales Collection (MSS 1154): Audio Interviews
- Nasario García Oral Histories and Papers (MSS 1137): Spanish Language Interviews Series, 1968-2005
- New Mexico-Colorado Spanish Survey Records (MSS-890-BC): Interview Sound Recordings, 1991-1996
- Ruben Cobos Collection of Southwestern Folklore and Folk Music Collection (MSS-892-BC): Southwest Recordings, 1944-1974
- The Val De La O Shows, 1976-1985
- Tomas Atencio Papers and Academia de la Nueva Raza / Rio Grande Institute Records Collection (MSS-827-BC): Audio Recordings, 1970-1994