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Arizona’s Civilian Conservation Corps and Our National Parks and Forests

Isabelle Hunt Pine Public Library Activity Room 6124 W. Randall Place, Pine, AZ, United States

In 1933, at the nadir of the Great Depression, the CCC was born. The program was designed to help unemployed and untrained young men learn new skills and earn money to support their families. CCCers fervently claim that the skill-building experiences forever changed their lives. These men built the roads, trails, picnic areas, ranger stations, […]

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Differing Perspectives:  An Overview of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

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

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is often described solely in terms of international diplomacy, particularly Western involvement in exacerbating or attempting to resolve instability in the region.  However, more crucial to an understanding of the nature of the conflict are internal issues, namely the differing perspectives that separate Palestinians from Israelis and make their disagreements so intractable. […]

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At Home: Veterans Read and Share Stories

Mesa Community College - Bldg EF, Room 1W 1833 West Southern Avenue, Mesa, AZ, United States

Female veterans are welcome to join this free four-session book group with dinner included. The group will read short stories and essays from classic and contemporary authors and talk about their own stories with other female veterans. Click Here to View Flyer Female veterans from all eras are invited to attend. Tuesdays: 6:30-8:00 PM February […]

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The Harlem Renaissance: Literary Movement

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

The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and early 1930s and it was an unprecedented period of expression by African Americans in music, literature, art, dance, poetry, politics, and economics.  Never before had America seen such a rich explosion of black culture.  This interactive presentation, which includes storytelling, poetry, theatre, art, […]

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Grants Workshop (Webinar/Conference Call)

Webinar/Conference Call Presentation This workshop takes place online, AZ, United States

Join Arizona Humanities for a workshop FREE and open to anyone interested in learning more about Arizona Humanities and how to write a competitive Project Grant or Opportunity Grant proposal. Registration is limited and closes one business day prior to the workshop. If you would like to register for a workshop that is already closed, […]

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Minister Malcolm X: Were Their Struggles the Same?

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

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Minister Malcolm X were both pivotal figures whose shoes have yet to be adequately filled by successors. Their voices were a clarion call to America to take note of the disparities faced by African Americans.  While their approaches to ameliorating these inequitable conditions were far from similar, they were […]

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Authors Night with Dan Budnik

Arizona Humanities 1242 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, AZ, United States

Join Arizona Humanities & Art Intersection for a presentation, discussion, & book signing with acclaimed photojournalist Dan Budnik for his new book Marching to the Freedom Dream. Marching To The Freedom Dream illustrates three pivotal marches of the Civil Rights Movements: the 1958 Youth March for Integrated Schools, organized by Bayard Rustin, Dr. King, and Harry […]

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

Trinity Presbyterian Church 630 Park Avenue, 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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Ancient Native American Astronomical Practices

Red Rock State Park - AZ State Parks 4050 Red Rock Loop Road, Sedona, AZ, United States

Throughout history, the ability of a people to survive has been tied to environmental conditions.  The skill to predict the seasons was an essential element in the ability to “control” those conditions. Seasonal calendars became the foundation of early cultures for hunting and gathering, planting and harvesting, worshiping and celebrating. The goal of cultural astronomy […]

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The Long Walk of the Navajo People, 1864-1868

Monte Vista Village Resort 8865 E. Baseline Rd., Mesa, AZ, United States

In 1864, the Navajo people were forced to walk over 450 miles to Fort Sumner in eastern New Mexico, an unfortunate event that is known in the Navajo language as Hweeldi. The story of this fatal march has been recorded and interpreted in historical literature by many non-Navajo authors and absent from that literature is […]

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