Archaeology Café (Tucson): When Is a Village?

Casa Vicente Restaurant 375 South Stone Avenue, Tucson, AZ, United States

On March 3, 2015, Dr. Lisa C. Young (University of Michigan) and Dr. Sarah A. Herr (Desert Archaeology, Inc.) will describe what makes a settlement a village. Archaeology Café is […]

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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. […]

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Emancipation and the Destruction of Slavery, 1861-1865

Burton Barr Central Library 1221 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, AZ, United States

The American Civil War resulted in the destruction of slavery in the United States, yet it is not always evident how this came about. People argue over who - or […]

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Telling It like It Was: Interviews with Arizona Pioneer Women

Sun Valley Lodge 12415 N. 103rd Ave., Sun City, AZ, United States

During the Depression, the Federal Writers Project conducted interviews with over 144 women who arrived in the Arizona Territory between 1850 and 1890. The women spoke of their long and […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Written in Thread: Arizona Women’s History Preserved in Their Quilts

Bullion Plaza Cultural Center and Museum 1 Plaza Circle, Miami, AZ, United States

Join Stevenson as she traces Arizona history through women who recorded pieces of their lives in their needlework.  Beginning with 1860s Mexican women, through 1990s Hopi women, this presentation introduces […]

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Along the California Trail

Maricopa Historical Conference 37860 W. Smith-Enke Road, Maricopa, AZ, United States

An ancient set of Indian paths and the natural flow of the Gila River created a major artery for travel through Arizona. The Gila provided a ready route for the […]

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

Pima County Public Library, Dusenberry-River Branch, 5605 E. River Road #105, Tucson, 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 […]

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