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The Student's History of New Mexico - Facsimile of the Original 1921 Second Edition (Paperback)
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The Student's History of New Mexico - Facsimile of the Original 1921 Second Edition (Paperback)
Series: Southwest Heritage
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L. Bradford Prince was one of seven territorial governors who
attended the January 15th inauguration of New Mexico's first state
governor, William C. McDonald, in New Mexico's long-awaited
statehood year, 1912. Within a year of that auspicious occasion,
Prince published "A Concise History of New Mexico," a condensation
and revision of his "Historical Sketches" of 1883. His purpose in
1913 was to provide a "little volume" that might be of use in the
now-required teaching of New Mexico history in the state's public
schools. The passage of a public school bill during his term as
governor had been considered an important step toward the
attainment of statehood. The publication of a state history
textbook was meant to be an important contribution to New Mexico
public education once statehood had been achieved. But within a
year of its publication, Prince affirmed that the length and price
of the already brief "Concise History" was excessive for most
public schools and students. While still recommending "A Concise
History" for teachers and most adults, Prince offered an even more
focused, 174-page work, entitled "The Student's History of New
Mexico." Now, instead of using history to argue the case for New
Mexico statehood, Prince's chief goal was to use history to help
create pride in New Mexico for the "clear-eyed, pure hearted, noble
minded youth" of the nation's newest state. These future citizens
could take pride in both their past, "the most interesting of all
American state histories," and in the special qualities of
individual groups whose collective story was "unrivaled in ancient
or modern times." Convinced that "The Student's History" had served
its purpose well, Prince later updated his book with an additional
ten pages about New Mexico's first few years of statehood. This
second edition of "The Student's History" appeared in 1921, a year
before Prince's death, and this is the edition Sunstone Press is
publishing in its Southwest Heritage Series. The second edition of
"The Student's History" is also offered as a brief history of New
Mexico of value to the general reader sophisticated enough to
recognize its biases, but astute enough to appreciate its many
facts. If this unique telling of New Mexico's past adds to our
pride in being New Mexicans-or helps others to better understand
New Mexico-then L. Bradford Prince will have achieved his purpose
long after he departed his beloved New Mexico, once a striving
territory and now a productive member of the nation's family of
states.
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