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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

Tastes & Treasures II now in Show Low and Snowflake, AZ

Thanks to Zona and Tom Lorig, Tastes & Treasures II: A Storytelling Cookbook of Historic Arizona is now available in ShowLow and Snowflake, AZ.  With Tom as the chauffeur, Zona delivered books to these Historical Society Affiliates. Published in 2015, the book is now almost sold out.

Snowflake Heritage Foundation director with Zona Lorig

Zona Lorig, Claire Thomas and volunteers

Zona Lorig with Clair Thomas, Director of the Show Low Historical Museum
 showing the wonderful train exhibit.

PBS features National History Day

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/competition-inspires-students-to-explore-history-through-art 

PBS features National History Day: National Competition with stories and interviews by PBS Jeffrey Brown. The Historical League is proud to support NHDAZ.

Thanks to AHS Dr. Kristen Rex (V.P. of Education), Leonard Moody, and Stacey Trepanier who guided the AZ students along the way.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/competition-inspires-students-to-explore-history-through-art

National History Day AZ students at finals in Washington D.C.

 Arizona flag, cowboy hats, and BIG smiles . . . that's what NHDAZ students wore at National competition in June! The Historical League is proud to help sponsor them in this amazing program. National History Day in Arizona

Students and parents decorated those cowboy hats to make them very individual.

Polly Rosenbaum remembered

Arizona State Archives posts on facebook on June 25:  Last January 11, we posted about the special Polly Rosenbaum 100th birthday cake served at the 2009 Polly Rosenbaum History and Archives Building dedication that took place 15 years ago.

Well...We found it! If you're looking for a delicious Fourth of July dessert, check out the recipe in the images below! If you make it, we will happily taste test the cake.

Recipe shared with permission from the Arizona Historical League, Inc. Visit their Facebook page HistoricalLeague.org

Image from the Polly Rosenbaum History and Archives Building dedication, 1/15/2009. RG 099 Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records. ASLAPR.

Recipe: Tastes and Treasures: A Storytelling of Historic Arizona. Historical League, Inc. Nashville: Favorite Recipes Press, 2007, front cover and pp. 136-137.

National History Day featured on CBS news

The Historical League is proud to support NHD in Arizona!

 https://www.cbsnews.com/video/national-history-days-historical-contest/

Students making history

At a time when educators may face restrictions on what they can teach, a contest sponsored by the non-profit organization National History Day offers students in grades 6-12 the opportunity to explore significant topics of history. Correspondent Faith Salie talks with some of the young people using writing, performance art and documentary filmmaking to tell stories of the past that resonate today, proving that history never gets old.