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On July 16, 1935, the City of Phoenix purchased 285 acres of agricultural land that became Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Increasing air travel and rapid population increase together fueled Sky Harbor’s exponential growth. In 1952 the airport served 296,000 passengers. Last year, Sky Harbor handled more than a thousand flights a day and 48.6 million passengers!

Joe Beeler Foundation continues to promote Western Art

 Historical League honored Joe Beeler in 1995 as Arizona Historymaker. His influence continues with The Joe Beeler Foundation (the CAA's educational nonprofit organization). The foundation was proud to partner with Imagination Fort Worth & the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo for CAPTI 2024. This is just one way CAA members honor the Joe Beeler Foundation's mission of educating the next generations of artists!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXRmXjBHLXE
For more info about the Joe Beeler Foundations visit: https://cowboyartistsofamerica.com/joe_beeler_foundation/

Historical League member Emily Burns visits Cottonwood and Sedona with Tastes & Treasures II

 Emily Burns has visited two more museums, distributing Tastes & Treasures II: A Storytelling Cookbook of Historic Arizona. And she had fun doing it.

Historical League members are the BEST!! Thank you Emily.

Emily Burns in Cottonwood

Road trip to distribute Tastes & Treasures Volume II

 Reporting from the road in Nogales, Norma Jean says, "Both of the directors and their volunteers were delighted to see us. They were impressed we traveled all the way to Pima, Bisbee, etc to bring Tastes & Treasures II. At Tubac in the fall they are planning a display of cookbooks featuring foods of the Sonoran Desert and will feature our book."

Thanks to www.pimeriaaltamuseum.org for these great photos of the area.

Rights & Responsibilities in History with National History Day in Arizona

 

National History Day in Arizona

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Students and teachers are you ready?

The annual National History Day® contest theme is designed to help you think of a topic from any aspect of local, regional, national, or world history. With this focus, you can begin to ask questions that your research will help you answer, including how your topic is significant in history.

Here are the Arizona Historical Society we are partnering with library and archives, historical groups, and educators to develop a study guide to get you thinking about this year’s theme!

NHD’s theme will be: Rights & Responsibilities in History. This year’s theme invites you to consider questions of time and place, cause and effect, change over time, impact and significance. The key to this theme is addressing BOTH rights AND responsibilities. Both are powerful forces in history, but one does not work without the other.

Check out this resource to start defining your topic and begin your research!

https://nhd.org/en/contest/theme/

Grand Canyon State represented at NHD

NHD writes, "There's so much magic at the National History Day National Contest, and our long-time photographer Raphael Talisman captures it all! Today we want to say thank you Raphi for capturing the National Contest for our students, teachers, families, judges, staff, and more!" 

Note the NHDAZ students wearing their distinctive cowboy hats which they designed themselves. The Historical League continues to sponsor this very worthwhile program.

NHDAZ Students Send Thank You letters

The Historical League was delighted to support travel and exhibit shipping costs for NHDAZ students who went to National Competition in College Park at University of Maryland in June.

Heidy Rabago competed in NHDAZ with exhibit "The Shirtwaist Factory Fire: A Turning Point in Workplace Reforms". Along with fellow students Natalie, Brianna, and Jayden, Heidy told a very significant story. Her Thank You letter was appreciated: My name is Heidy Rabago. I participated in the National History Day National Competition this past June, and my project was in the senior group exhibit category. Traveling to Washington D.C and participating in the NHD competition this year was lots of fun and truly one of the highlights of my summer, because through my involvement in this competition not only was I able to further develop my personal skills, but I was also able to learn about all the different ways some of the turning points in history have impacted the world we live in today, which was truly inspiring. Thank you so much!

Heidy Rabago at National Competition, College Park, MD