Writer of the Month
Mr. Benjamin J. Hruska, Arizona State University
Benjamin Hruska is a PhD candidate in public history at Arizona State University. Before attending ASU he served as executive director of the Block Island Historical Society located on Block Island, Rhode Island.
Photo of the Day
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Featured ArticleFilms and ArizonaArizona’s dramatic vistas and colorful landscapes provide settings for a full range of motion pictures including classics of the black-and-white era, science-fiction pictures depicting other worlds, and the recent trend of settings of films presenting the challenges of the modern Middle East. Starting in the 1920s, Arizona provided filming locations for such actors as James Stewart, Elvis Presley, and Burt Lancaster. more… |
Fact of the day
During World War II, Arizona was the location of two of the largest Japanese American internment camps in the United States, with more total internees than any other state. Each camp was home to more residents than any other Arizona city at the time, excluding Phoenix and Tucson.