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History Club/ Phi Alpha Theta Newsletter | Mon. 9-18-2023

Fernando Valdes - Monday, September 18, 2023
 Weekly Newsletter 
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Happy Hispanic Heritage Month!!

     Hello again, I hope you all had a wonderful week and that at least ac ouple of you attended some of the many events both on and off campus. 
     This week marks the start of Hispanic Heritage Month in the US, an especially important celebration given our University's large Latin@ population. The US has a long, complicated, and fascinating history with Latin America and one that I hope everyone takes the time to understand as inhabitants of the borderlands. 
     As you may be aware, this weekend was the celebration of Mexico, and Central America's independence from Spain. As we celebrate our release from the yoke of the Spanish empire we must remember that many of our Indigenous brethren both inside and outside of Latin America have not been allowed the same independence.
     In observation of Hispanic Heritage month we will be having Dr. Carlos Parra, a post-doctorate researcher in our History Department give a talk on the US-Mexico Border in Nogales during the Mexican Revolution (not to be confused with the war for independance) and pan dulce from La Estrella Bakery.
Come join us!

Your president, 
Fernando Valdes 
 

This week in History

September 18, 2001 
The first letter in what would be known as the Amerithrax anthrax attacks of 2001 is mailed 

September 19, 1997
Otzi the Iceman is discovered. An ice mummy so well preserved that the German  hikers that found him thought it was a recently dead hiker, which became one of the most important looks into bronze age human society.

September 20, 2001
POTUS Goerge W. Bush declares a war on terror in an address to a joint session of Congress

September 21, 1976
Orlando Letellier is assassinated by Chilean secret police in Washington DC, likely with the permission of the CIA

September 22, 1980
Saddam Hussein's Iraq invades Iran with the support and aid of the US government.

September 23, 1973
After years of exile following a takeover by a military junta, Juan Peron, is elected president of Argentina for the third time. He would only rule for a year before dying of heart disease, setting the ground for the Argentine dirty war. 

September 24, 2014
India's Mars Orbiter mission makes it the first asian country to reach Mars orbit, and the first in the world to do it on the first attempt. 

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NEXT MEETING:
Dr. Carlos Parra on the

US-Mexico Border in Nogales during the Mexican Revolution

w/ Pan Dulce from La Estrella Bakery

Sep. 19th 2023
5:00PM
Chavez Rm 316

AZ in Israel and Zambia

     UA Judaic Studies' Arizona in Israel Program endeavors to apply a scholarly approach, that is, one that prizes objectivity, and thus does not advocate any particular politics or political outcomes with regard to Israel, the Arab-Israeli conflict, or anything else.
      An important goal of the program is to introduce students to complex realities in Israel by exposing the students to various Jewish, Arab, Druze, and other views and positions whenever possible. Thus, we hope that students will develop the means to develop informed, analytically sophisticated positions concerning various issues and controversies. In their capacity as the Program's Directors, the AII faculty work neither for/with the Israeli government nor for/with the Palestinian National Authority, nor with/for any other governmental entity; rather, we endeavor to hear from representatives of several such entities, as well as from various civil society groups as well as from scholars and unaffiliated individuals.

- David Graizbord

The History Department's Student Journal is Looking for Peer Reviewers!!


Interested in learning more about the publication and reviewing process? Become a part of the footnotes reviewing team and learn valuable skills in academic writing. 

For more information or questions, reach out to: 

Zelin Pei   zelinp@arizona.edu

James Paul   jrpaules@arizona.edu

Johanne Harrigan   johanneharrigan@arizona.edu

or get in touch with the History Club directly and we'll try to answer any questions we can!