Art of the Internment Camps: Culture Behind Barbed Wire President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1942 WWII Executive Order 9066 forced the removal of nearly 125,000 Japanese-American citizens from the west coast, […]
Dr. Kathy Nakagawa, Arizona State University, School of Social Transformation Many parents and educators avoid conversations about race and racism with their children and students, yet young people are regularly […]
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 […]
Early traders traveled through Arizona Territory, selling goods from their wagons, but they soon built stores that evolved into trading and social centers where wool, sheep, and Native Arts were […]
Winnie Ruth Judd, Eva Dugan, Dr. Rose Boido, and Eva Wilbur Cruz all shared one thing in common. They were all incarcerated at the Arizona State Prison in Florence. These […]
Performing From Place: Earth to Microphone Reading and Q&A - 5:30 p.m. Ken Lamberton will read lyrical prose and poems from his book Wilderness and Razor Wire and from other […]
Throughout the ages we humans have had a need to mark the time and place where people make the final stop on their journey from this world to the next. […]
Tom Jeffords grew up in Ashtabula, OH, without much education and was promoted to lake captain in his early twenties. The lure of making his fortune called Tom west to […]
We are intrigued by unsolved mysteries, because it would seem almost impossible for anyone to totally vanish from the face of the earth at any time. This is especially true […]
Join Dr. Alan Eladio Gómez, Borderlands Scholar/Associate Professor with the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University for a presentation and discussion. More information coming soon. 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. - Small […]
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