Is This Racist? Racial Literacy and Social Media – Coolidge

Coolidge Public Library 160 W. Central Avenue, Coolidge, AZ, United States

Is This Racist? Racial Literacy and Social Media Dr. Kathy Nakagawa, Arizona State University, School of Social Transformation Many parents and educators avoid conversations about race and racism with their […]

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FRANK Talks: Challenges to Democracy from the Extremes – Glendale

Glendale Public Library - Foothills Library - Roadrunner Room 19055 N 57th Ave, Glendale, United States

Challenges to Democracy from the Extremes Dr. Albrecht  Classen, University of Arizona, Department of German Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies The recent death of a demonstrator in Charlottesville, Virginia, […]

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The Holocaust and Its Memory – Prescott

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

The Nazis in Germany committed the worst crimes against humanity in world history. The Holocaust will remain in our collective memory and reminds us constantly of the profound dangers that […]

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Rising from Invisibility:  Indigenous Arizona Women – Casa Grande

Casa Grande Public Library 449 N. Dry Lake St., Casa Grande, AZ, United States

In many Southwestern matrifocal cultures, Indigenous women’s lives are modeled after female heroes and sacred women who exemplify and express courage and kinship values. Among some tribal cultures, rites of […]

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Arizona Goes to the Moon – Cottonwood

Deadhorse Ranch State Park - 675 Dead Horse Ranch Rd., Cottonwood, AZ, United States

Arizona played a key role in preparing to send humans to the moon in the late 1960s/early 1970s. The Apollo astronauts themselves traveled to the Grand Canyon and volcanic fields […]

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Early Western Songs and Singers – Wickenburg

Desert Caballeros Western Museum 21 N. Frontier Street, Wickenburg, AZ, United States

Whether or not you grew up when Western films competed favorably with the popular films of the day, you will definitely want to take yourself back in time to hear […]

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Apaches and their Horses – Chandler

Ed Robson Branch Library 9330 E. Riggs Rd., Sun Lakes, AZ, United States

It has been thought that the Apache do not become Apache until the adoption of the horse, which triggered the raiding adaptation. While horses played a central role in the […]

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Legacies of the Past: Arizona Women Who Made History – Sedona

Church of the Nazarene 55 Rojo Dr, Sedona

From artists and healers, teachers and entrepreneurs, women who plowed the land and those who were instrumental in establishing laws for the new territory of Arizona. Many early Arizona women […]

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Arizona Outlaws and the Law – Florence

Florence Community Library 778 N. Main St., Florence, AZ, United States

Taking the events from Billy the Kid, who killed his first man in Arizona, the Gunfight at the OK Corral, and the arrest and trial of Ernesto Miranda, this presentation […]

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The Earliest Apache in Arizona: Evidence and Arguments – Phoenix

Pueblo Grande Museum 4619 East Washington St., Phoenix, AZ, United States

How did the Apache impact late prehistoric peoples? Research provides evidence of ancestral Apaches in the southern Southwest as early as A.D. 1300. Evidence comes from chronometric dates obtained from […]

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