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Summer History Talks: Apache History and the Long Shadow of Spanish Colonialism in Arizona and the Southwest Borderlands

Live Presentation via Zoom
Virtual Screening Room
Tuesday, Jul 15, 2025 12:00 PM
Arizona / Mountain Standard Time
Join the Arizona Historical Society and Dr. Paul Conrad for an installment of AHS Summer History Talks: Spanish Period in Arizona!

This presentation will consider the history and legacies of Spanish colonialism in Arizona and the Southwest from the vantage point of Apache history. Apache (Ndé) peoples are known for their independence from and resistance to Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. governance. Yet colonial efforts to subjugate them—including through long-distance forced migrations--were also deeply impactful to their communities. Dr. Paul Conrad will discuss this history through the stories of specific individuals and the broader themes their life experiences reveal.

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Paul Conrad is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the author of The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival (Penn Press, 2021), which received awards from the OAH, WHA, and the Historical Society of New Mexico. His current project focuses on the role Indigenous survivors of the U.S. boarding school system played within their communities during the first half of the twentieth century.