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  • April 2020

  • Fri 24
    April 24, 2020 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

    CANCELED – Borders, Walls and Immigration in Arizona

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    The Arizona-Mexico border is a line of separation and a place of coming together. This paradox shapes the borderland region and its people in fascinating and important ways. In this talk, Dr. Warren offers a historical and geographical overview of the formation of the Arizona- Mexico border and its evolution since the 1800s. The program […]

  • Sun 26
    April 26, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

    CANCELED – The 1894 Lowell Expedition to Arizona

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

    In 1894 an Easterner named Andrew Douglass explored Arizona Territory in search of an ideal site to establish an astronomical observatory for Bostonian Percival Lowell. Traveling by train and stagecoach, Douglass visited Tombstone, Tucson, Tempe, Prescott and Flagstaff. While making scientific observations at each locale, he experienced a variety of unforeseen episodes. This expedition is […]

  • Tue 28
    April 28, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am

    CANCELED – The Antiquity of Irrigation in the Southwest

    Before AD 1500, Native American cultures took advantage of southern Arizona’s long growing season and tackled its challenge of limited precipitation by developing the earliest and most extensive irrigation works in all of North America. Agriculture was introduced to Arizona more than 4,000 years before present, and irrigation systems were developed in our state at […]

  • Wed 29
    April 29, 2020 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

    CANCELED – The Antiquity of Irrigation in the Southwest

    The Church at Litchfield Park 300 N Old Litchfield Rd, Litchfield Park, AZ, United States

    Before AD 1500, Native American cultures took advantage of southern Arizona’s long growing season and tackled its challenge of limited precipitation by developing the earliest and most extensive irrigation works in all of North America. Agriculture was introduced to Arizona more than 4,000 years before present, and irrigation systems were developed in our state at […]

  • November 2020

  • Thu 5
    November 5, 2020 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

    Hyenas in Petticoats: How Women Struggled Against Every Dirty Trick in the Book to Win The Vote! with Jana Bommersbach

    As we celebrate the 100th birthday of the 19th Amendment in 2020, it’s time to look back at the enormous effort it took for women to be granted full citizenship and the vote. History has downplayed suffrage, as if it were just a footnote in American history, when in fact, it was the nation’s largest […]

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  • Sat 14
    November 14, 2020 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

    Hyenas in Petticoats–How Women Struggled Against Every Dirty Trick in the Books to Win the Vote! with Jana Bommersbach

    As we celebrate the 100th birthday of the 19th Amendment in 2020, it’s time to look back at the enormous effort it took for women to be granted full citizenship and the vote. History has downplayed suffrage, as if it were just a footnote in American history, when in fact, it was the nation’s largest […]

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  • December 2020

  • Sat 5
    December 5, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

    The Ballad of Arizona

    Originally conceived to celebrate Arizona’s Centennial in 2012, “The Ballad of Arizona” has been updated to provide a more complete survey of important, but often little-known, chapters of Arizona’s unique history. A blend of music, video, and lecture, “The Ballad of Arizona” is similar to “A Prairie Home Companion” but with an Arizona twist. The […]

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  • Fri 18
    December 18, 2020 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

    Nevertheless She Persisted! Women Who Made a Difference on the Arizona Frontier

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    Meet an array of early Arizona women who endured troubles and hardships, along with achieving amazing feats and triumphs during the territory’s early days, bringing a unique perspective to a harsh, strange country. Some of these women faced and fought discrimination, some laid down their lives. Learn about Native women warriors and peacemakers as well […]

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  • January 2021

  • Thu 14
    January 14, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

    Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II with Natalie J. Stewart-Smith

    During World War II over one thousand women served as Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), freeing male pilots for combat roles at a critical time during the war. The WASP ferried planes from factories to embarkation points; performed engineer test flying of repaired aircraft and did target towing for gunnery training. By the spring of […]

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  • Fri 15
    January 15, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

    Lives of Arizonans from Memoirs and Fiction with Jim Turner

    Arizona pioneers tell their stories in diaries, letters, and memoirs. Martha Summerhayes’s beloved Vanished Arizona and Captain John Bourke’s On the Border with Crook, plus biographies of Hopi, Pima, and Tohono O’odham women describe their lives and feelings. But we’ll also look at fiction, including Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop, Zane Gray’s Riders of the Purple Sage, and […]

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