During the 17th and early 18th centuries, Jesuit missionaries such as Father Eusebio Francisco Kino and later Franciscans introduced European fruit trees to New Spain, now the United States–Mexico borderlands. Jesús M. García, Research Associate, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, discusses the importance of pomegranates, figs, quinces, and olives, which were a significant part of the mission

In 1917, Gen. John J. Pershing brought 527 Chinese refugees from Mexico. These men had attached themselves to the punitive expedition conducted by Gen. Pershing in pursuit of the Mexican revolutionary leader Francisco “Pancho” Villa from 1916 to 1917. When Pershing withdrew, aware that the lives of the Chinese who had served his troops were

The Hohokam had an intricate relationship with animals of the Sonoran Desert that is revealed in their artwork. Their realistic, playful, and abstract depictions of creatures on pottery, carved stone, shell, and rock art, show not only their close observations to the natural world, but how they viewed that world in a cosmological context. Research

Learn about the geologic history of the Rincon Mountains from George Davis, Regents Professor and Provost Emeritus, University of Arizona. George ‘retired’ in 2020, 50 years after arriving at UArizona. As a field-oriented structural geologist, he has seen a lot of rocks in southern Arizona. Information about how to access the Zoom session will be emailed