Rivers of Dreams: Songs and Stories of Arizona’s Waterways with Jay Cravath
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The Colorado, the Gila, the Salt, the Verde, the Hassayampa, the Santa Cruz: Arizona’s rivers were lush green ribbons of life flowing through a desert landscape. They became sustaining paths […]
Seeing the Desert with Gregory McNamee
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Most Arizonans are not originally from Arizona, and most come from places that are far greener and milder of climate than our desert. For many of us, it takes a […]
Arizona Water Use from Prehistory to the Present with Jim Turner
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This presentation covers humankind’s water use and food supply interactions with Arizona’s ecology from Clovis culture hunter-gatherers to prehistoric irrigation canals, contemporary Hopi and Tohono O’odham dry farming, and present-day […]
What is Civic Engagement? with Mathew Nevarez
Environmental sustainability, access to voting, public education—these are all civic issues affecting communities. What is a community? How can you participate in one? Join us for a lively discussion about […]
Rivers of Dreams: Songs and Stories of Arizona’s Waterways with Jay Cravath
![](https://azhumanities.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Cravath-Jay-400x265.jpg)
The Colorado, the Gila, the Salt, the Verde, the Hassayampa, the Santa Cruz: Arizona’s rivers were lush green ribbons of life flowing through a desert landscape. They became sustaining paths […]
The Selling of the Grand Canyon: The Santa Fe, Harvey Company and the El Tovar with John Mack
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This presentation discusses the significance of the American Southwest in the early 20th century when national attention shifted to the canyons and deserts of the American Southwest. Although American scientists, […]
Multilingual Baseball: Language and Identity across Borders with Brendan O’Connor
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Transnational baseball is a microcosm of globalizing societies around the world, inviting audiences to consider what we can learn from the bilingual understandings and misunderstandings that arise in everyday interactions. […]
Rivers of Dreams: Songs and Stories of Arizona’s Waterways with Jay Cravath
![](https://azhumanities.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Cravath-Jay-400x265.jpg)
The Colorado, the Gila, the Salt, the Verde, the Hassayampa, the Santa Cruz: Arizona’s rivers were lush green ribbons of life flowing through a desert landscape. They became sustaining paths […]
Arizona Water Use from Prehistory to the Present with Jim Turner
![](https://azhumanities.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/jim-turner-headshot-new-e1413930303226.jpeg)
This presentation covers humankind’s water use and food supply interactions with Arizona’s ecology from Clovis culture hunter-gatherers to prehistoric irrigation canals, contemporary Hopi and Tohono O’odham dry farming, and present-day […]
Cochise, Geronimo, and the Apache Wars with Gregory McNamee
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Their names resound in Arizona history and pepper the of the state map, but few people know well the tangled history that surrounds the so-called “Apache Wars”, when fully half […]