Hot Topics Café – The Limits of Free Speech

Museum of Northern Arizona 3101 North Fort Valley Road, Flagstaff, AZ, United States

What shouldn’t we say? The limits of free speech Facilitated by: Jeff Downard, NAU Department of Philosophy Hot Topics Café is a program that creates a forum for civil discourse about matters of significance to our communities. Unbiased information sheets present arguments on competing sides of a question, and give legislative histories or other relevant […]

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Cowboys and Cowgirls: Icons of the American West

Mohave Community College Kingman Campus 1971 E Jagerson Ave, Kingman, AZ, United States

Few symbols have been more durable than the American cowboy. This program will give an overview of this populist figure, whose image was first defined by painters Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell. Also important to the story are brave cowgirls and the Mexican vaqueros. Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show showcased mythic cowboy culture, with […]

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Oh, The Shape We’re In!: How Arizona’s and the Western States’ Borders Were Determined

Prescott Public Library 215 E. Goodwin St., Prescott, AZ, United States

The original 13 colonies and their influence on our country’s expansion to the Pacific, along with how Arizona’s growth led it to become the 48th state, illustrate the connection between geography, politics, economics, and social forces, all of which played a role in the determination of the state borders west of the Appalachian Mountains.  Thomas […]

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A Photographic History of Arizona from Prehistory to the Present

Phippen Museum 4701 U.S. HWY 89N, Prescott, AZ, United States

If a picture is worth a thousand words, this program could fill a seven-volume history of Arizona. From the geological wonders of the Grand Canyon and the Petrified Forest to cutting-edge biotech industries and Native American art galleries, this whirlwind pictorial history tour of Arizona from prehistory to the present shows it all. In addition […]

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Swing into History: Popular Music of the Big Band Era

Sedona Winds Retirement Center 405 Jacks Canyon Rd., Sedona, AZ, United States

With the exception of the most ardent collectors and the older generations, the influence and legacy of the big bands is largely forgotten despite their overwhelming popularity and significant role in early radio.  Join Larson as he revisits the sounds that America listened and danced to for more than three decades.  Learn how iconic artists […]

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Swing into History: Popular Music of the Big Band Era

Sedona Public Library 3250 White Bear Road, Sedona, AZ, United States

With the exception of the most ardent collectors and the older generations, the influence and legacy of the big bands is largely forgotten despite their overwhelming popularity and significant role in early radio.  Join Larson as he revisits the sounds that America listened and danced to for more than three decades.  Learn how iconic artists […]

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Hot Topics Café – You Can’t Handle the Truth

Museum of Northern Arizona 3101 North Fort Valley Road, Flagstaff, AZ, United States

Hot Topics Café creates a forum for civil discussion about issues of contemporary concern. Join us to learn more about the issue, and more about other people and their views. NAU’s Philosophy in the Public Interest convenes the Hot Topics Café. Philosophy in the Public Interest is nonpartisan, and does not endorse a position with […]

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Armed with Our Language, We Went to War:  The Navajo Code Talkers

Prescott Centennial Center 1989 Clubhouse Drive, Prescott, AZ, United States

During WWII a select group of young Navajo men enlisted in the Marines with a unique weapon.  Using the Navajo language, they devised a secret code that the enemy never deciphered.  For over 40 years a cloak of secrecy hung over the Code Talker’s service until the code was declassified and they were finally honored […]

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Saving the Great American West:  The Story of George Bird Grinnell

Prescott Public Library 215 E. Goodwin St., Prescott, AZ, United States

The great West that George Bird Grinnell first encountered in 1870 as a 21-year-old man was shortly to disappear before his eyes.  Nobody was quicker to sense the desecration or was more eloquent in crusading against the poachers, the hide-hunters, and the disengaged U.S. Congress than George Bird Grinnell, the “Father of American Conservation.”  Grinnell […]

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Hot Topics Café – Paper or Plastic

Museum of Northern Arizona 3101 North Fort Valley Road, Flagstaff, AZ, United States

Hot Topics Café creates a forum for civil discussion about issues of contemporary concern. Join us to learn more about the issue, and more about other people and their views. NAU’s Philosophy in the Public Interest convenes the Hot Topics Café. Philosophy in the Public Interest is nonpartisan, and does not endorse a position with […]

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