Welcome to Classroom Programs

History to Go suitcases:
Arizona History Museum (Tucson)

The Trunk program brings the Arizona Historical Society to your classroom. Docents present one-hour, interactive programs that explore artifacts kits. Presentations are available to grades K-12, and to adult groups.

All trunks adhere to the Arizona State Social Studies Standards. Presentations are limited to a maximum of one hour for up to 30 individuals.

Grades K-3
Hats off Arizona

For Adults

Cost: first presentation $25, second presentation (same day, same suitcase) $20, third presentation (same day, same suitcase) $15.

History To Go Presentation Reservation Form

Locations available for this program:
AHS Museum at Papago Park (Tempe)

Pick up a trunk and present to your class real-life stories of Arizona residents from 1880-1920. Each trunk is filled with lesson plans, costumes, toys, games, photographs, and children’s stories

Cost: $75 per week ($25 refundable upon return). Teachers must arrange for pickup and delivery. Trunk topics include:

Grades 4-5

• Julia Mosher 
• Señora Catalina Sanchez

Traveling Trunk Rental Reservation Form

Locations available for this program:
Although this program is based in Tempe, many of the historians will travel to other parts of the state.

Living historians tell stories of how they lived, what they saw, how they felt, and who they encountered. They bring Arizona history to life.

• Army commander during the 1870s’ and 1880s’
• Humorist, cotton farmer, and cowboy trick roper
• Buffalo soldier
• Cowboy, actor, musician, and U.S. marshal
• Cowboy
• Cowboy singer and Arizona storyteller
• Legislator, poet, writer, first Arizona state historian
• Homesteader, army laundress, hospital matron
• 1930s’ Chandler cotton farmer’s wife
• Arizona Territory army officer’s wife
• Mountain Man

Arizona Historical Society/Tucson
Lollesgard Postcard Collection, PC238

Locations available for this program:

• Arizona History Museum (Tucson)
• AHS Museum at Papago Park (Tempe)

These primary resource packets focus on specific events and people in Arizona’s history.  Each packet includes photographs and documents from the Arizona Historical Society’s Archives.

History Topics

• Buffalo Soldiers
• Japanese Experience in Arizona
• Pleasant Valley Wars
• Tombstone: Myth vs. Reality
• African American Experience in Tucson

***Coming Soon***

Locations available for this program: Sanguinetti House Museum (Yuma)

Slide shows and videos are available to local schools and organizations for checkout or can be presented by a staff member.

• Cowboys
  
• Outlaws
  
• Frontier Women
  
• Spanish Explorers
  
• Commerce
  
• Banking
  
• Ghost Towns
  
• Mining
  
• Mountain Men
  
• Transportation

• General Yuma History
  
• Architecture
  
• Early Schools
  
• Earthquakes
  
• Trails
  
• Floods
  
• Petroglyphs
  
• Mining
  
• The Colorado River
  
• Steamboats
• Local Pioneers

• Baskets
  
• Bedding
  
• Historic Fashions
• Lighting
  
• Indian Tribes