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Was honored to present a keynote to Arizona Home Health Visitors at their fantastic Strong Families AZ conference . What a fantastic...

Sunday June 16th brought various commemorations of Juneteenth as well as Fathers' Day. Had a great time meeting so many people checking...

Our stories matter and we must find the courage to tell them. As a person more familiar with telling the stories of others from the past,...

A personal essay about a historical topic and excellent book.

From enslavement and Jim Crow to the 21st century, Dr. Uché Blackstock story interweaves family and institutional history. Her mother,...

Thanks to KJZZ's Lauren Gilger for discussing the history and significance of women marching for their rights, in conjunction with the...

Happy to announce that AZ Speaks, sponsored by Arizona Humanities, will offer a presentation delivered by Dr. Pamela Stewart,...

In a recent article about Caroline Kennedy in her role as U.S. Ambassador to Australia, President John F. Kennedy's daughter was quoted...

We live in an era when some prefer the history they think they know and desperately want to believe, to the history that is factual....

Among the first to be arrested, imprisoned, even tortured and murdered when an oppressive regime comes to power are humanists, the...

At some point the terms SEX and GENDER became synonymous. But they did not start out that way and we need to decouple them, especially as...

In a recent New York Times opinion piece, "Getting a Birth Control Pill Should Be Easy" (May 24, 2023), physician Eric Reinhart engages...

We need reminding that all too often, "news" means something different is happening among more-or-less privileged white people, in this...

UPDATED: 1/3/23: FINALLY: A suspect arrested. For a few insights on related issues, see Julia Cooke's guest essay in the New York Times...

Try this: In your mind's eye, imagine what a naked Human looks like. Are you imagining what Human looks like without sex or even racial...

Welcome to the world of ACTIVHISTorians: using history as a tool to solve today's problems. ACTIVHISTorian, Pamela Stewart, earned...