This study examines human interactions with the Rio Grande from prehistoric time to the present day and explores what possibilities remain for the desert river.

The Rio Grande was ancient long before the first humans reached its banks. These days, the highly regulated river looks nothing like it did to those early settl

An unprecedented analysis of the origin story of New Mexico’s modern water management system. Maria Lane’s Fluid Geographies traces New Mexico’s transitio

Fray Francisco Atanasio Domínguez Award from the Historical Society of New Mexico New Mexico-Arizona Book Award Finalist in History For much of the twentieth c

Examines how state government policies and their historic beginnings have present-day effects on their residents' political lives and on population health, espe