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The Eagle and the Archaeologists: The Lindberghs’ 1929 Southwest Aerial Survey

Springerville Heritage Center 418 E. Main Stret, Springerville, AZ, United States

Charles Lindbergh is best known for his famous 1927 flight across the Atlantic Ocean. But few realize that Lindbergh and his wife, Anne, played a brief but important role in archaeology. In 1929 they teamed up with noted archaeologist Alfred Kidder to conduct an unprecedented aerial photographic survey of Southwest prehistoric sites and geologic features […]

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Sprechen Sie Deutsch?:  German-Speaking Jesuit Missionaries as Founders of Sonora/Arizona

Copper Queen Library 6 Main St., Bisbee, AZ, United States

We commonly assume that the early history of the Pimeria Alta (now Sonora/Arizona) was greatly determined by the Spanish colonizers. But, in reality, the Jesuit Order can be credited with having had the greatest impact on the region, perhaps best represented by Padre Eusebio Kino.  A surprisingly large number of his successors hailed from German-speaking […]

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Arizona’s War Town: Flagstaff, Navajo Ordnance Depot, and World War II

ASU Colleges at Lake Havasu City, Santiago 109 100 University Way, Lake Havasu City, AZ, United States

Just weeks after Pearl Harbor, the War Department announced the construction of a massive ammunition depot ten miles west of Flagstaff. The Army rushed the $17 million project to completion in a spasm of boomtown upheaval. One thousand Navajo and Hopi construction workers stayed on to run the struggling new depot. Meanwhile, the Navy halted […]

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“And Ya Don’t Stop”: Hip Hop and American Popular Culture

Glendale Community College Student Union 6000 W. Olive Ave, Glendale, AZ, United States

This presentation will demonstrate that hip hop and rap is, as Robin D.G. Kelley argues, “arguably the post Civil Rights Era’s highest form of creative, extemporaneous, ever evolving form of communication and expression.” Whitaker will argue that it developed as collective critique of the stigmatization and marginalization of black youth, and has evolved into a […]

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Arizona Kicks on Route 66

Dorothy Powell Senior Adult Center 405 E. 6th St., Casa Grande, AZ, United States

U.S. Route 66, known as the “Mother Road,” was built in 1926. It ran from Chicago to L. A. During the depression of the 1930s, it became the major path by which people migrated west, seeking work, warm weather and new opportunities. Shore shares the history of Route 66 in Arizona, including the impact it […]

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The Vulture Gold Mine

Desert Caballeros Western Museum 21 N. Frontier Street, Wickenburg, AZ, United States

Discovered in 1863 by Henry Wickenburg, the Vulture Gold Mine was the first big gold mine in Arizona.  The mine and its colorful cast of characters, along with the town of Wickenburg, were instrumental in stimulating considerable growth and development in Central Arizona. This presentation will share the multi-layered story of the gold mine, thus […]

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He Called It a Dream, but It Woke Us Up!

Estrella Mountain Community College Conference Center 3000 North Dysart Road, Avondale, AZ, United States

Vicariously experience the environment and atmosphere of a 1960s-era Civil Rights Movement camp.  Through theatrical performance, music, poetry, and participatory activities, audience members will examine the culture of discrimination, racial prejudice, and social injustice in the United States as it was during the 1960s.  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s strategy of passive resistance will be […]

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Deceptions, Lies and Alibis

A killer camel, a tornado-riding con man, a dead dragon, and a naked horse thief are some of the characters in the quirky stories from Southwest history that Peach loves to share in his original cowboy poetry.  Laugh at and learn from these very tall and mostly true tales, like how Arizona forfeited a seaport […]

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In the Footsteps of Martha Summerhayes

Pinal County Historical Society Museum 715 South Main, Florence, AZ, United States

In the 1870s a refined New England woman traveled with her lieutenant husband to the untamed Arizona Territory. Traveling in terrible conditions and initially horrified by the desert landscape, she eventually gave birth to the first Anglo child born at Fort Apache. Ultimately, Ms. Summerhayes came to love the starry nights, the clear air and […]

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Ancient Landscapes of the American Southwest

Casa Grande Public Library 449 N. Dry Lake St., Casa Grande, AZ, United States

The American Southwest is world-renown for its colorful, modern landscape, but you’ll be amazed to learn what it used to look like. The Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, the Superstition Mountains, and the Petrified Forest hold clues to the fascinating story of how the Southwest was once the site of tropical seas, Sahara-like deserts, coastlines stalked […]

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