The University of New Mexico offers graduate assistantships.
Special Library Strengths: American frontier, American West and Southwest, American Indians, Spanish borderlands and Latin America, and Gender.
National Archives microfilm collections of nineteenth century Department of War documents and a fairly complete run of the Congressional Serial Set.
The open stacks and special collections also hold a rich collection of published memoirs, letters, and journals relating to the frontier military experience.
UNM is a federal repository library. Consequently it receives a copy of all unclassified books, reports, magazines, and journals published by the three major military branches and other federal departments.