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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

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

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)
John Clum, (1852 – 1931) (Booth)
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)
Territorial Kids (Booth)
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

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)
Native Borders: Arizona’s American Indian Reservations (Booth)
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)
John Clum, (1852 – 1931) (Booth)
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)
Native Borders: Arizona’s American Indian Reservations (Booth)
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)
From the Trickster to the Braggart: Arizona Folktales (Booth)
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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