Speakers Bureau Themes

If you'd like to organize a speaker series around a specific theme, here are several suggestions (by no means exhaustive) from which to choose. Of course, you are welcome to mix and match speakers in any way.

Themes

• The American Experience
• Archaeology & Anthropology
• Arizona Places
• Arizona Territorial History
• Arizona’s Natural Environment
• Arizonans at Work
• Between Fences
• Ethnic Groups of Arizona
• The Hispanic Experience
• Music
• Native American Stories
• Noteworthy Arizonans
• Schools of Thought
• Southwestern Art and Film
• Spanish Colonial Era
• Twentieth-Century Arizona
• Understanding Our Place in the World
• Women’s History
• Writers, Storytellers, and Poets

The American Experience

• Abraham Lincoln at 200 (Simpson)
• American Presidential Elections in Historical Perspective (Simpson)
• Americans and Their Things (Smith)
• Benjamin Franklin: Man and Legend – A Look at the 18th Century (Smith)
• Emancipation and the Destruction of Slavery, 1861 – 1865 (Simpson)
• Four Hundred Years of Immigration to America: Ethnicity, Public Opinion and Policy, 1607 to 2007 (Gratton)
• Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Walls, Boundaries, Lines in the Sand, and a Yankee Poet (George)
• History of American Humor (Smith)
• History, Hip Hop, and American Popular Culture (Whitaker)
• Jazz and the American Identity (Jarrett)
• John Wayne – American Icon (Ziegler)
• Mexican American History and Culture in Transition (Vega)
• A Present Absence: Hollywood’s History of American Diversity (Leong)
• President Lyndon Johnson and the 1960’s (Smith)
• Race Relations and Interracial Unity in America (Whitaker)
• Refugees in American, Refugees in Arizona (Gratton)
• Religion, Politics, and American Public Life (Wentz)
• The Repatriation of Mexican and Mexican American Citizens in the 1930s (Vega)
• Southern Connections: The Meaning of Mexico for Arizona and the U.S. (Williams)
• Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life (Simpson)
• U.S. Population Beyond 300 Million (Larson-Keagy)
• Wyatt Earp – The Man in the Movies (Ziegler)

Archaeology & Anthropology

• Ancient Native American Pottery of Southern Arizona (Dart)
• Archaeology and Cultures of Arizona (Dart)
• Arts and Culture of Ancient Southern Arizona Hohokam Indians (Dart)
• Flamenco Dance and Spanish Bullfighting: A Confluence of Movement Traditions (Landborn)
• Male Bonding Around the Campfire: Constructing Myths of Hohokam Militarism (Koblitz)
• Set in Stone But Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian Rock Art (Dart)

Arizona Places

• Anchors Aweigh: The U.S. Navy’s World War II "Training Base" at Flagstaff (Westerlund)
• Arizona for Newcomers (McNamee)
• Arizona War Town: Flagstaff, Navajo Ordinance Depot, and World War II (Westerlund)
• Beyond Guard Towers and Barbed Wire: Austrian Prisoners of War at Navajo Ordnance Depot (Westerlund)
• The Changing Nature of Resources of Arizona’s Native American Lands (Jaquay)
• Collapse and Rebirth of Downtown Phoenix, 1945-2007 (VanderMeer)
• Conflicts and Challenges for Parker, Arizona (Jaquay)
• Eloy’s Gun and Cotton Stories: Romanticizing the Real (LeSeur)
• Fuel for Growth: Water Challenges Facing Arizona’s Urban Environment (Kupel)
• Historic Graffiti: Arizona’s Own "Independence Rock" (Grandrud)
• The Illustrated History of Flagstaff (Mangum)
• Life Behind the Fence: Indian Workers at Navajo Ordnance, World War II (Westerlund)
• Names on the Land (McNamee)
• Not All Okies Are White: Randolph, Arizona, 1930s – 1950s (LeSeur)
• Transforming Desert Visions: The Growth of Phoenix, 1860 – 2006 (VanderMeer)

Arizona Territorial History

• Arizona Territorial Medicine: Healers, Hucksters, & Heroes (Kravetz)
• Asian Americans in Arizona (Leong)
• Badger Clark. Cowboy Poet (Scott)
• Eloy’s Gun and Cotton Stories: Romanticizing the Real (LeSeur)
• General Crook and the Sierra Madre Adventure in Mexico, 1883 (Miles)
• Geronimo’s Surrender: The 1886 C.S. Fly Photographs (Van Orden)
• Grand Canyon-Flagstaff Stagecoach Line (Mangum)
• Gunfight at the OK Corral (Ziegler)
• Healthseekers of Arizona (Kravetz)
• How the Judge’s Brother Got Away with Murder: The Prosecution of Frank C. Kibbey (Hietter)
• How Wild Was It? An Overview of Crime and Justice in Arizona Territory (Hietter)
• In Their Own Words: Diaries of 19th Century Women (Grandrud)
• Local Healers, Proprietary Medicines, and Frontier Docs: Women’s Health in Territorial Arizona (Koblitz)
• Lure of the West: Arizona’s Jewish Pioneers (Mallin)
• Nineteenth-Century Arizona Through the Stereoscope (Rowe)
• No Better Then Murderers: The Story of the Canyon Diablo Train Robbery of 1889 (Hietter)
• Popular Justice Run Amok: The Globe Lynchings of 1882 (Hietter)
• Shady Women and "Respectability" in Territorial Arizona (Koblitz)
• Sharlot Hall, (1870 – 1943) (Drake)
• Silver Images on Glass Plates – Early Photography in Arizona (Rowe)
• Teresa Urrea, (1873 – 1906) (Björkquist)
• Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday – The Tombstone Years (Ziegler)
• Wyatt Earp – The Man in the Movies (Ziegler)

Arizona’s Natural Environment

• The Changing Nature of Resources of Arizona’s Native American Lands (Jaquay)
• The Crooked Trail to Holbrook (Scott)
• Fuel for Growth: Water Challenges Facing Arizona’s Urban Environment (Kupel)
• Historic Graffiti: Arizona’s Own "Independence Rock" (Grandrud)
• Names on the Land (McNamee)
• Nature Writing and Its Authors (Riedell)
• Not a Drop to Drink: Arizona’s Last Great Drought, 1920 – 1941 (Kupel)
• Rip Van Winkle Finally Wakes Up: The History of Environmental Discourse in the Media (Riedell)
• River of History: A Gila Journey (McNamee)

Arizonans at Work

• Anchors Aweigh: The U.S. Navy’s World War II "Training Base" at Flagstaff (Westerlund)
• Arizona Territorial Medicine: Healers, Hucksters, & Heroes (Kravetz)
• Arizona War Town: Flagstaff, Navajo Ordinance Depot, and World War II (Westerlund)
• Armed with Our Language, We Went to War: The Diné/Navajo Code Talkers (Tohe)
• "Batter Up!" Arizona’s Women Softball Teams (Melcher)
• Beyond the Cotton Fields: Black Migrant Women Building Communities (LeSeur)
• How Wild Was It? An Overview of Crime and Justice in Arizona Territory (Hietter)
• In the Shadow of the Smokestack (Björkquist)
• Life Behind the Fence: Indian Workers at Navajo Ordnance, World War II (Westerlund)
• Local Healers, Proprietary Medicines, and Frontier Docs: Women’s Health in Territorial Arizona (Koblitz)
• Making Do With Less: Arizona Women and the Great Depression (Melcher)
• Manuel José de Sosa, 1695 – 1748 (Garate)
• Shady Women and "Respectability" in Territorial Arizona (Koblitz)

Between Fences

• The Changing Nature of Resources on Arizona’s Native American Lands (Jaquay)
• Fences and Walls: Which Side Are You On? Perspectives from the Smithsonian, Arizona and Beyond (Williams)
• Four Hundred Years of Immigration: America 1607 to 2007 (Gratton)
• Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Walls, Boundaries, Lines in the Sand, and a Yankee Poet (George)
• Japanese-American Internment in Arizona (Leong)
• The Opening of the Frontier and the Closing of the West (McNamee)
• Race Work: The Rise of Civil Rights in the Urban West (Whitaker)
• The Repatriation of Mexican and Mexican-American Citizens in the 1930s (Vega)
• A Third Country? Cultural and Economic Melding on the Arizona/Sonora Border (Williams)

Ethnic Groups of Arizona

• The African American Experience in Arizona: 500 Years of History (Whitaker)
• African American Life and Culture in El Mirage (Anokye)
• Apache Culture Kit (Miles)
• Armed with Our Language, We Went to War: The Diné/Navajo Code Talkers (Tohe)
• Asian Americans in Arizona (Leong)
• Beyond the Cotton Fields: Black Migrant Women Building Communities (LeSeur)
• Beyond Guard Towers and Barbed Wire: Austrian Prisoners of War at Navajo Ordnance Depot (Westerlund)
• Bold, Brave, and Beautiful: Jewish Women Who Helped Build the West (Mallin)
• Four Hundred Years of Immigration to America: Ethnicity, Public Opinion and Policy, 1607 to 2007 (Gratton)
• Growing Up Chicana in Morenci (Björkquist)
• In the Shadow of the Smokestack (Björkquist)
• Japanese Americans in Arizona (Leong)
• Mexican American History and Culture in Transition (Vega)
• Not All Okies Are White: Randolph, Arizona, 1930s – 1950s (LeSeur)
• Race Work: The Rise of Civil Rights in the Urban West (Whitaker)
• Refugees in America, Refugees in Arizona (Gratton)
• A Third Country? Cultural and Economic Melding on the Arizona/Sonora Border (Williams)
• Who Lives in Arizona? Arizona’s Changing Demography (Larson-Keagy)

The Hispanic Experience

• Arizona Spanish (Cashman)
• Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation (Björkquist)
• Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Autobiography (Tatum)
• Descansos: Marking Passages (Jaquay)
• Descanse En Paz: Traditional Cemeteries and Handmade Grave Markers in the Southwest (George)
• Encountering God Through the Mexican American Experience (Vega)
• Growing Up Chicana in Morenci (Björkquist)
• In the Shadow of the Smokestack (Björkquist)
• Juan Bautista de Anza, (1736 – 1788) (Garate)
• Manuel José de Sosa, (1695 – 1748) (Garate)
• Mexican American History and Culture in Transition (Vega)
• The Origins and Development of Chicana and Chicano Literature (Tatum)
• The Repatriation of Mexican and Mexican American Citizens in the 1930s (Vega)
• Teresa Urrea, (1873 – 1906) (Björkquist)
• What Is Spanglish? Crossing Linguistic Fences, Building Linguistic Bridges (Cashman)

Music

• Dance, Sensuality, and Culture (Landborn)
• Flamenco Dance and Spanish Bullfighting: A Confluence of Movement Traditions (Landborn)
• The Healing Art: How Does Music Soothe the Soul? (Jarrett)
• History, Hip Hop, and American Popular Culture (Whitaker)
• The Instrument as Time Capsule (Craváth)
• Jazz and the American Identity (Jarrett)
• The Journeys of Kokopelli (Craváth)
• The Music and Ritual of Arizona’s Native Americans (Craváth)
• Song Collection: Arizona’s Wellspring of Music (Craváth)
• Steal from the Best: Music’s Inherent Internationalism (Jarrett)
• Why So Much Passion? (Landborn)
• Your Musical Brain: Can Music Make You Smarter? (Jarrett)

Native American Stories

• Apache Culture Kit (Miles)
• Arizona War Town: Flagstaff, Navajo Ordinance Depot, and World War II (Westerlund)
• Armed with Our Language, We Went to War: The Diné/Navajo Code Talkers (Tohe)
• The Camp Grant Massacre, 1871 (Miles)
• The Fight in the Salt River Canyon: Skull Cave, December 1872 (Miles)
• General Crook and the Sierra Madre Adventure in Mexico, 1883 (Miles)
• Geronimo’s Surrender: The 1886 C.S. Fly Photographs (Van Orden)
• The Journeys of Kokopelli (Craváth)
• Life Behind the Fence: Indian Workers at Navajo Ordnance, World War II (Westerlund)
• Lifestyle of the Chiricahua Apache (Van Orden)
• Male Bonding Around the Campfire: Constructing Myths of Hohokam Militarism (Koblitz)
• The Music and Ritual of Arizona’s Native Americans (Craváth)
• Oral and Written Literature Among Southwestern Indigenous Writers and Storytellers (Tohe)
• Warriors and Beyond: A Closer Look at the Clothing, Equipment, and Lifestyle of the Chiricahua Apache (Van Orden)

Noteworthy Arizonans

• Adventurous Spirits: Arizona’s Women Artists, 1900-1950 (Fahlman)
• Arizona Women’s Hall of Fame (Grandrud)
• Badger Clark. Cowboy Poet (Scott)
• Charles Fletcher Lummis: "The Greatest Southwesterner"? (George)
• Cora Viola Slaughter, Southern Arizona Ranchwoman (Grandrud)
• Edward Abbey: Desert Anarchist? (Smith)
• Eulalia "Sister" Bourne, (1897 – 1984) (Sandin)
• General Crook and the Sierra Madre Adventure in Mexico, 1883 (Miles)
• Geronimo’s Surrender: The 1886 C.S. Fly Photographs (Van Orden)
• How the Judge’s Brother Got Away with Murder: The Prosecution of Frank C. Kibbey (Hietter)
• Juan Bautista de Anza, (1736 – 1788) (Garate)
• Lon Megargee: Arizona’s Cowboy Artist (Fahlman)
• Mary Austin, (1868 – 1934) (Temple)
• "Resist Much, Obey Little": Edward Abby and the Monkey Wrench Gang (Riedell)
• Sharlot Hall, (1870 – 1943) (Drake)
• Teresa Urrea, (1873-1906) (Björkquist)
• Wealth, Power, and Prejudice on the American Mining Frontier: The Tragedy of Horace Tabor and His Beautiful "Baby Doe" (Temple)
• William Mulholland, (1855 – 1935) (Smith)
• Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday – The Tombstone Years (Ziegler)
• Wyatt Earp – The Man in the Movies (Ziegler)

Schools of Thought

• Americans and Their Things (Smith)
• Dance, Sensuality, and Culture (Landborn)
• The Healing Art: How Does Music Soothe the Soul? (Jarrett)
• The History of American Humor (Smith)
• History, Hip Hop, and American Popular Culture (Whitaker)
• Indispensable Memory: Photography As a Research Tool (George)
• Jazz and the American Identity (Jarrett)
• Journalism Ethics (Craft)
• Literature, Art, and Medicine (Kravetz)
• Male Bonding Around the Campfire: Constructing Myths of Hohokam Militarism (Koblitz)
• Mass Media and Society (Craft)
• Mysticism in the Middle Ages (Classen)
• The Opening of the Frontier and the Closing of the West (McNamee)
• Religion, Politics, and American Public Life (Wentz)
• Steal from the Best: Music’s Inherent Internationalism (Jarrett)
• Why So Much Passion? (Landborn)
• You Can’t Understand Your Culture Without Studying Religion (Wentz)
• Your Musical Brain: Can Music Make You Smarter? (Jarrett)

Southwestern Art and Film

• Adventurous Spirits: Arizona’s Women Artists, 1900-1950 (Fahlman)
• Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation (Björkquist)
• Descansos: Marking Passages (Jaquay)
• Descanse En Paz: Traditional Cemeteries and Handmade Grave Markers in the Southwest (George)
• Films of the Southwest: Myth or Reality? (Riedell)
• A Gallop Through the Art History of Arizona (Fahlman)
• Indispensable Memory: Photography As a Research Tool (George)
• John Wayne – American Icon (Ziegler)
• Lon Megargee: Arizona’s Cowboy Artist (Fahlman)
• Post Card Images of Arizona, 1900 – 1920 (Rowe)
• Silver Images on Glass Plates – Early Photography in Arizona (Rowe)
• Wyatt Earp – The Man in the Movies (Ziegler)

Spanish Colonial Era

• Early History of Arizona: German Jesuits as Founders of Arizona (Classen)
• Juan Bautista de Anza, 1736 – 1788 (Garate)
• Manuel José de Sosa, 1695 – 1748 (Garate)

Twentieth-Century Arizona

• Adventurous Spirits: Arizona’s Women Artists, 1900-1950 (Fahlman)
• Anchors Aweigh: The U.S. Navy’s World War II "Training Base" at Flagstaff (Westerlund)
• Arizona’s War Town: Flagstaff, Navajo Ordinance Depot, and World War II (Westerlund)
• Arizona for Newcomers (McNamee)
• Arizona Spanish (Cashman)
• Arizona Women’s Hall of Fame (Grandrud)
• Armed with Our Language, We Went to War: The Diné/Navajo Code Talkers (Tohe)
• "Batter Up!" Arizona’s Women Softball Teams (Melcher)
• Beyond Guard Towers and Barbed Wire: Austrian Prisoners of War at Navajo Ordnance Depot (Westerlund)
• Bold, Brave, and Beautiful: Jewish Women Who Helped Build the West (Mallin)
• The Changing Nature of Resources on Arizona’s Native American Lands (Jaquay)
• Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation (Björkquist)
• Collapse and Rebirth of Downtown Phoenix, 1945 – 2007 (VanderMeer)
• Conflicts and Challenges for Parker, Arizona (Jaquay)
• Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Autobiography (Tatum)
• Eulalia "Sister" Bourne, 1897 – 1984 (Sandin)
• Fences and Walls: Which Side Are You On? Perspectives from the Smithsonian, Arizona and Beyond (Williams)
• Fuel for Growth: Water Challenges Facing Arizona’s Urban Environment (Kupel)
• Four Hundred Years of Immigration to America: Ethnicity, Public Opinion and Policy, 1607 to 2007 (Gratton)
• In the Shadow of the Smokestack (Björkquist)
• Japanese-American Internment in Arizona (Leong)
• Life Behind the Fence: Indian Workers at Navajo Ordnance Depot, World War II (Westerlund)
• Making Do With Less: Arizona Women and the Great Depression (Melcher)
• Not a Drop to Drink: Arizona’s Last Great Drought, 1920 – 1941 (Kupel)
• Race Work: The Rise of Civil Rights in the Urban West (Whitaker)
• Refugees in American, Refugees in Arizona (Gratton)
• The Repatriation of Mexican and Mexican American Citizens in the 1930s (Vega)
• Route 66 Across Arizona (Mangum)
• Southern Connections: The Meaning of Mexico for Arizona and the U.S. (Williams)
• Transforming Desert Visions: The Growth of Phoenix, 1860 – 2006 (VanderMeer)
• What is Spanglish? Crossing Linguistic Fences, Building Linguistic Bridges (Cashman)
• Who Lives in Arizona? Arizona’s Changing Demography (Larson-Keagy)

Understanding Our Place in the World

• Americans and Their Things (Smith)
• Cultural and Physical Geographies of Southwest Asia and Afghanistan (Larson-Keagy)
• Flamenco Dance and Spanish Bullfighting: A Confluence of Movement Traditions (Landborn)
• History of Jews in the Middle Ages (Classen)
• The History of Mexico and Contemporary Issues (Vega)
• Mass Media and Society (Craft)
• Medicine’s Greatest Discoveries (Kravetz)
• Mysticism in the Middle Ages (Classen)
• Rip Van Winkle Finally Wakes Up: The History of Environmental Discourse in the Media (Riedell)
• Southern Connections: The Meaning of Mexico for Arizona and the U.S. (Williams)
• U.S. Population Beyond 300 Million (Larson-Keagy)
• What Is the World Growing To? Earth Beyond 6 Billion (Larson-Keagy)
• Women in the Middle Ages (Classen)
• Why So Much Passion? (Landborn)
• You Can’t Understand Your Culture Without Studying Religion (Wentz)

Women’s History

• Adventurous Spirits: Arizona’s Women Artists, 1900-1950 (Fahlman)
• Arizona Women’s Hall of Fame (Grandrud)
• Arizona Women’s Heritage Trail: Marking Their Sites (Melcher)
• "Batter Up!" Arizona’s Women Softball Teams (Melcher)
• Beyond the Cotton Fields: Black Migrant Women Building Communities (LeSeur)
• Bold, Brave, and Beautiful: Jewish Women Who Helped Build the West (Mallin)
• Cora Viola Slaughter, Southern Arizona Ranchwoman (Grandrud)
• Eulalia "Sister" Bourne, 1897 – 1984 (Sandin)
• Growing Up Chicana in Morenci (Björkquist)
• In Their Own Words: Diaries of 19th Century Women (Grandrud)
• Local Healers, Proprietary Medicines, and Frontier Docs: Women’s Health in Territorial Arizona (Koblitz)
• Making Do With Less: Arizona Women and the Great Depression (Melcher)
• Shady Women and "Respectability" in Territorial Arizona (Koblitz)
• Sharlot Hall, (1870 – 1943) (Drake)
• Teresa Urrea, (1873 – 1906) (Björkquist)
• Wealth, Power, and Prejudice on the American Mining Frontier: The Tragedy of Horace Tabor and His Beautiful "Baby Doe" (Temple)
• Women in the Middle Ages (Classen)

Writers, Storytellers, and Poets

• Badger Clark. Cowboy Poet (Scott)
• Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Autobiography (Tatum)
• The Crooked Trail to Holbrook (Scott)
• Eloy’s Gun and Cotton Stories: Romanticizing the Real (LeSeur)
• Eulalia "Sister" Bourne, 1897 – 1984 (Sandin)
• Family Secrets: The Uneasy Tradition of Diarists and Their Readers (Temple)
• Films of the Southwest: Myth or Reality? (Riedell)
• In Their Own Words: Diaries of 19th Century Women (Grandrud)
• Mary Austin, (1868 – 1934) (Temple)
• Nature Writing and Its Authors (Riedell)
• Oral and Written Literature Among Southwestern Indigenous Writers and Storytellers (Tohe)
• The Origins and Development of Chicana and Chicano Literature (Tatum)
• A Present Absence: Hollywood’s History of American Diversity (Leong)
• Sharlot Hall, 1870 – 1943 (Drake)
• A Story, A Story: African/African American Community Mothers, Community Activists (Anokye)
• Tony Hillerman, Yataalii of the Navajo Way (Wentz)
• Wyatt Earp – The Man in the Movies (Ziegler)
• Zane Grey Brings Hollywood to Arizona (Mangum)

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