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Online Sources for Statehood History 

History Resources and General Sites Containing Information on Statehood, the Territorial Period and the Post-Statehood Period

1)  The New Mexico Office of the State Historian website has extensive information on all aspects of New Mexico history.  www.newmexicohistory.org 

2)  Historical Society of New Mexico (timelines and links to other resources). www.hsnm.org

3)  The Official Site of the New Mexico Centennial, www.nmcentennial.org 

4)  UNM Libraries--Celebrating New Mexico Statehood (also links to lesson plans). digitalnm.unm.edu 

5)  New Mexico Blue Book Online. www.sos.state.nm.us/sos-2010BlueBook.html 

6)  New Mexico Centennial Atlas of Historic Maps (New Mexico Humanities Council).  http://atlas.nmhum.org 

Articles on Statehood and Territorial New Mexico 

1)  Road to Statehood 1846-1912, by Robert J. Torrez. www.newmexicohistory.org/filedetails_docs.php?fileID=21636 

2)  New Mexico Constitution Meets the “Facts on the Ground”, by Mark Thompson. www.newmexicohistory.org/filedetails_docs.php?fileID=23358 

3)  New Mexico and the Coming of the Civil War, 1860, by Dwight Pitcaithley. www.newmexicohistory.org/filedetails_docs.php?fileID=22324 

4)  New Mexico’s Fight for Statehood, 1895-1912, Part 1, by Marion Dargan (can link to other Parts).  www.newmexicohistory.org/filedetails_docs.php?fileID=24195 

Original Documents related to New Mexico Statehood  

1)  New Mexico Territory Bill of Rights, 1846.  www.newmexicohistory.org/filedetails_docs.php?fileID=383 

2)  The Kearny Code, 1846. www.newmexicohistory.org/filedetails_docs.php?fileID=384 

3)  Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848.   www.newmexicohistory.org/filedetails_docs.php?fileID=331  

4)  New Mexico Convention of 1848. www.newmexicohistory.org/filedetails_docs.php?fileID=21723 

5)  Journal of the New Mexico Assembly of 1849. www.archive.org/details/journalofnewmexi00newmrich 

6)  First New Mexico “State” Constitution, 1850. www.newmexicohistory.org/filedetails_docs.php?fileID=24057 

7)  Compromise of 1850 and Organic Law of New Mexico, 1850.  http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=009/llsl009.db&recNum=473  

8)  Gadsden Purchase Treaty, 1853.  www.newmexicohistory.org/filedetails_docs.php?fileID=300

 9)  New Mexico Constitution, 1896.  http://digitalnm.unm.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/Manuscripts&CISOPTR=5871&REC=3   

10)  Enabling Act for New Mexico, June 1910.  www.childrenslandalliance.com/download_state_file.php?file_id=21 

11)  Proclamation of New Mexico Statehood, 1912. www.newmexicohistory.org/filedetails_docs.php?fileID=311  

12)  New Mexico Constitution, 1912.  www.sos.state.nm.us/pdf/2007nmconst.pdf 

13)  Various original documents related to Statehood are available at http://digital.unm.edu (link to “Statehood” button on home page) 

Teaching Resources 

1)  Celebrating New Mexico Statehood Lesson Plans (Center for Southwest Research, UNM).  http://econtent.unm.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/LessonPlans  

2)  Time Travel Manual to 1912 (living history in the classroom, Dr. Jon Hunner, NMSU).  web.nmsu.edu/~publhist/timetraveling.pdf 

3)  New Mexico Art Tells New Mexico History (New Mexico Museum of Art).  http://online.nmartmuseum.org/nmhistory