The University of Arizona Press
Date: Saturday, July 12, 2025
Time: 7 p.m., MST
Where: Presidio Museum Territorial Patio, 196 N. Court Ave., Tucson, AZ
Tom Sheridan presents “Tucson, a Historically Multi-Ethnic Community” at Tucson’s Presidio Museum. The event is part of the Tucson 250+: Summer Lecture Series. The Tucson region has been home to many cultures for the past two hundred and fifty years. Sheridan will share a brief history of the O’odham at San Xavier, the Spanish presidio and its related settlers, the Apache, and the so-called “Apaches Mansos” that were settled north of the presidio beginning in the 1790s. Tom Sheridan is author or editor of numerous books including Arizona: A History, Los Tucsonenses, and The Border and Its Bodies, co-edited with Randall H. McGuire. Tickets for this event are $10 for Tucson Presidio members, and $15 for non-members.
Tom Sheridan is a Research Anthropologist at the Southwest Center and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. He directed the Mexican Heritage Project at the Arizona Historical Society from 1982-1984 and was director of the Office of Ethnohistorical Research at the Arizona State Museum from 1997 to 2003.
About Arizona: A History:
Hailed as a model state history thanks to Thomas E. Sheridan’s thoughtful analysis and lively interpretation of the people and events shaping the Grand Canyon State, Arizona: A History has become a standard in the field. For Arizona’s centennial, Sheridan revised and expanded this already top-tier state history to incorporate events and changes that have taken place in recent years. Addressing contemporary issues like land use, water rights, dramatic population increases, suburban sprawl, and the US-Mexico border, the new material makes the book more essential than ever. It successfully places the forty-eighth state’s history within the context of national and global events. No other book on Arizona history is as integrative or comprehensive.
