events that helped shape our nation."

Mr. Thompson said "every effort" went into protecting the series' historical accuracy, and 75 historians were consulted. Historical consultant Peter Twist oversaw the series' dramatic recreations, Canadian historian John English and Indigenous arts scholar Gerald McMaster served as primary consultants, he said.

"The series was developed under the guidance of historians and academic consultants and, as is sometimes the case, historians will agree to disagree," Mr. Thompson said.

With a file from The Canadian PressMark Moores

ByAndrew Oxford, Santa Fe New Mexico | March 17, 2019

The 60-day legislative session ended Saturday with a down-to-the-wire agreement on a sweeping tax bill that will raise rates on e-cigarettes and new vehicles while nearly doubling an income tax credit for some families. The scaled-back version of House Bill 6 approved by the Senate in the last 20 minutes before the final bang of the gavel was a fitting end to a session dominated for better or worse by the state’s financial outlook. Driving the session was a whopping budget surplus and the substantial increases in funding for education that it has financed. An oil boom generated the windfall, but there was fear among several lawmakers about what might befall New Mexico if fickle energy markets take