Chinese Ordered to 'Git' in Territorial New Mexico
An 1885 Silver City notice shows how newspapers made Chinese residents seem removable.
Essays
This template includes three sample essays on Southwest food history — nachos, chiles, and tamales — written with AI assistance as placeholder content. They’re here to demonstrate what student essays can look like: how to use images, pull quotes, scrolling backgrounds, and other Xanthan components in a longer piece of writing.
Browse them to get a feel for the format. When you’re ready to build your own project, you’ll replace these with your students’ essays — same structure, your topic.
Vietnamese Refugee Experience
How Vietnam War refugees adjust to life in New Mexico.
Woo Dak San
Woo Dak San was a Chinese American immigrant whose 1925 murder case gained national attention and exposed media exaggeration and anti-Chinese legal bias.
Vietnamese Labor and Work Experience
What working looks like for Vietnamese people and the issues they faced because of work.
Vietnamese Refugees in New Mexico: The Bigger Picture
How Vietnamese Refugees Made it to New Mexico.
Arab Immigrants and the Camel Drives
Stories of immigration and logistics
Territory of New Mexico v Yee Shun - Rights of Chinese Immigrants in New Mexico
Rights of Chinese Immigrants in New Mexico
Tamotzu and the Hiroshima-Santa Fe Exchange: Art as Postwar Reconciliation
Viewing the relationship of art within Santa Fe and Postwar Hiroshima
Exclusion of Asian Migrants in the 1880s
How did Americans in New Mexico react to the arrival of the Chinese migrants in the 1880s.
Vietnam Refugees
Vietnam Refugees in New Mexico and how the settlement compares to other places.
Title of HIS 1105 project
One sentence summary of your project
Filipino Americans Struggle for Identity Amidst Shadow of Association
A brief overview on the connection and history between Filipino-Americans in New Mexico
NM Reaction To Japanese Internment
I'm seeking to explore how New Mexicans reacted to the internment of Japanese Americans.
New Mexico's Alien Land Law
How the Alien Land Law came to New Mexico in the early 1900s, and how it became a relic of early anti-Japanese sentiment in the state.