Dr. Yasir Hussain was born in the tribal lands of the Kurram Agency in the town of Alizai, grew up in Peshawar, and later relocated to Islamabad, Pakistan. With a love for literature, Hussain became a Fulbright scholar at the…
Blog Archives
Decolonized Mind
Tagged with: Albuquerque, Common Core, Education, ESL, Language, Literacy, Memory, New Mexico, Oral History, Pakistan, Phd, Research, Teaching, Transcript, University of New Mexico, UNM
Posted in Albuquerque
Posted in Albuquerque
Aggie Cupboard
Kit Elliott graduated from New Mexico State University class of 1962, earned English, Spanish, and Secondary Education degrees, and became an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) instructor through Albuquerque, New Mexico’s Central New Mexico Community College. Born and raised in the…
Tagged with: Aggie Cupboard, Archives, Education, Homelessness, Hope Stories, Hunger, Las Cruces, New Mexico, NMSU, Oral History, Public Health, Transcript
Posted in Las Cruces
Posted in Las Cruces
Mesilla Valley Community of Hope
Nicole Martinez grew up in California and Oregon, studied Sociology at Brigham Young University, and, after working for Utah’s child protective services, earned Social Work and Sociology masters’ degrees from Western New Mexico University and New Mexico State University. In…
Tagged with: Archives, Camp Hope, CFYD, Children, Community of Hope, Continuum of Care, Criminal Justice, Day Labor, Education, Hacienda del Sol, Homelessness, Hope Stories, Housing First, HUD, Las Cruces, MVCH, New Mexico, NMCEH, NMSU, Oral History, Public Health, Tent City, Tents-to-Rents, Transcript, Urban Space, Veterans, Winter
Posted in Las Cruces
Posted in Las Cruces
Project Link Homeless Education
Yoli Silva helped New Mexico’s children as a Las Cruces Public Schools (Title 1– Education for the Disadvantaged) Social Worker for over twenty-seven years, including twelve years as Project Link Homeless Education liaison to the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act. Silva…
Tagged with: Archives, Children, Community of Hope, Education, Homelessness, Hope Stories, Las Cruces, McKinney-Vento Act, New Mexico, NMSU, Oral History, Project Link, Public Health, Public Schools, Transcript, Winter
Posted in Las Cruces
Posted in Las Cruces
Saint Andrew’s Church Hope
Dr. Nancy McMillan grew up in Las Alamos, New Mexico, an area known as a “Glow in the Dark” scientific community because of its history with radioactive elements and nuclear materials’ production. A youth member of Los Alamos Geological Society…
Tagged with: Archives, Churches, Community of Hope, Education, El Caldito, Geology, Hacienda del Sol, Homelessness, Hope Stories, Las Cruces, MVCH, New Mexico, NMSU, Oral History, Research, Saint Andrews Church, Saint Luke's Health Clinic, Soup Kitchens, Transcript
Posted in Las Cruces
Posted in Las Cruces
Hacienda del Sol shelter
Raised in Appalachian West Virginia, and inspired by her mother’s belief in the power of education, Nancy Baker rose above the roots of poverty and into an academic career. Dr. Baker earned a PhD from Tulane University in 1989, joined…
Tagged with: Archives, Children, Community of Hope, Criminal Justice, Domestic Abuse, Education, Hacienda del Sol, Homelessness, Hope Stories, Law, MVCH, NMSU, Oral History, Public Health, Shelter Care, Transcript, Women
Posted in Las Cruces
Posted in Las Cruces
History Notes
Tagged with: Community of Hope, Doña Ana County Historical Society, Education, Homelessness, Hope Stories, Las Cruces, Library, Museums, MVCH, Research
Posted in Las Cruces
Posted in Las Cruces
Jardin de Los Niños
Audrey Hardman-Hartley was born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, raised in El Paso, Texas and Hilo, Hawaii, and returned to Las Cruces to attend New Mexico State University. Twenty six years after completing a master’s degree, and following a career…
Tagged with: Archives, Children, Community of Hope, Education, Great Depression, Homelessness, Hope Stories, Jardin de Los Niños, Las Cruces, New Mexico, NM FOCUS Program, NMSU, Oral History, Reading, Teaching, Therapy, Transcript
Posted in Las Cruces
Posted in Las Cruces
Research Questions –– Public History
Can the American home and workplace become sensible, inclusive, and accessible to human beings without recourse from bad credit, zombie debt, and the historical threat of cyclical individual and familia poverty? How do individuals, small groups, and municipal organizations apply…
Tagged with: Education, Health, Homelessness, Hope Stories, Language, Las Cruces, New Mexico, NMSU, Public Health, Research, Sustainability, Urban Space
Posted in Las Cruces
Posted in Las Cruces
Podcasts ‘R’ Us?
Podcasts pose challenges beyond the historical applications of analog oral history methodology. Pre-interview etiquette, in-depth narrator research, closely monitored sound recording levels and interviewing techniques all continue to be valuable skills of born-digital oral history collection; however, as the Oral…
Tagged with: Access, Communications, Computers, Digital Recording, Digitization, Education, FCC, Humans of New Mexico, Internet, Learning, Listening, Literacy, Net Neutrality, Podcast, Research, Story Corps, WiFi
Posted in Las Cruces
Posted in Las Cruces
NMSU Summer Archive Internship
In the archive, avoid to-do “which” lists that include any list of chores, errands, or projects that cannot be processed by real human beings. In the archive, and its companion library system, any number of misfortune, pitfall, or researcher led…
Tagged with: Archives, DACS, Digitization, Education, Internship, Las Cruces, Library, Lyrasis, NMSU, Processing, Research, Rio Grande Historical Collection
Posted in Las Cruces
Posted in Las Cruces
Alabama Grove
Narrator Margaret Pool speaks about Pleasant Grove, Alabama school fairs and musicals during the Fall and Summer, family football and listening-in via transistor radio, and travel throughout the United States, including Knoxville, Tennessee seeking wild blueberry in the Great Smoky…
Tagged with: Alabama, Albuquerque, Education, Fall, Home Movies, Learning, Listening, Postcards, Reading, Smoky Mountains, Sports, Summer, Teaching, Tennessee, Transistor Radio, Travel, Wisconsin
Posted in Albuquerque
Posted in Albuquerque
records papers 