Hot Topics Café – The Limits of Free Speech

Sedona Public Library 3250 White Bear Road, Sedona, 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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Orphan Trains to Arizona

Patagonia Public Library 346 Duquesne, Patagonia, AZ, United States

Orphan Trains to Arizona is a multimedia presentation that tells the story of the 250,000 orphans and unwanted children who were put on trains in New York between 1854 and 1929 and sent all over the United States to be given away. Through live music, historical fiction, oral history, and informal discussion, participants will learn about […]

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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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Beyond the Cotton Fields: Black Migrant Women Building Communities

Tempe History Museum 809 E. Southern Avenue, Tempe, AZ, United States

This presentation is based on the stories of five women from the Casa Grande Valley towns (Eloy, Randolph, Coolidge, Casa Grande, and the Gila Reservation) who, despite their busy and oppressive lives of work, family, poor housing, etc., managed to become politicized, self-educated activists. They rebuilt their lives and created lively communities even after "the […]

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Arizona Foundation for Women Young Professionals Mixer

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

This event is free and open to all! Come out and enjoy refreshments and a performance by Myrlin Hepworth (2013 Humanities Rising Star Awardee). Please RSVP through facebook. Click here to be directed to facebook.    

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Father Kino: Journey to Discovery

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

Through his many diaries and letters it is obvious that Father Kino was more than a missionary who worked among the Native Americans. While his name is often associated with the San Xavier del Bac Mission, he was also a skilled mathematician and cartographer.   He made more than 40 expeditions during his life while living […]

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

White Tank Library 20304 W. White Tank Mountain Road, Waddell, 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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Swing into History: Popular Music of the Big Band Era

Mohave County Library Lake Havasu Branch 1770 McCulloch Blvd N., Lake Havasu City, 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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Saving the Great American West:  The Story of George Bird Grinnell

Eloy Santa Cruz Library 1000 N. Main St., Eloy, 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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The Eagle and the Archaeologists: The Lindberghs’ 1929 Southwest Aerial Survey

Good Shepherd of the Hills Episcopal Church 6502 E. Cave Creek Rd., Cave Creek, 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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