City: Flagstaff

Join us and Dr. Laura Muñoz to discuss her most recent work, Desert Dreams: Mexican Arizona and the Politics of Educational Equality.  Dr. Muñoz comes from a family of teachers, including her maternal great-grandmother who taught in the early 1900s in Texas public schools. She is the inspiration behind Dr. Munoz’s book, Desert Dreams a study of Arizona students and teachers in the territorial and early statehood days. Desert Dreams documents the unknown contributions of Mexican Americans in founding, shaping, and participating in Arizona education since 1871.

Dr. Muñoz is currently an associate professor of history and ethnic studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She earned her Ph.D. in American History at Arizona State University. 

Join us and Dr. Yolonda Youngs for a presentation on her recent publication Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon.

From the University of Nebraska Press: In Framing Nature Yolonda Youngs traces the idea of the Grand Canyon as an icon and the ways people came to know it through popular imagery and visual media. She analyzes and interprets more than fourteen hundred visual artifacts, including postcards, maps, magazine illustrations, and photographs of the Grand Canyon, supplemented with the words and ideas of writers, artists, explorers, and other media makers from 1869 to 2022. Framing Nature provides a novel interpretation of how places, especially national parks, are transformed into national and environmental symbols.