Arizona History

The architects of the Central Arizona Project said the canal system would run out of water without massive augmentation, but decades of CAP policymakers did not heed those warnings.

Nicknamed the “Pride of the Navajo Nation,” Cody Jesus has long been on the radar of the Arizona Ridge Riders — a Glendale-based team within the Professional Bull Riders league.

The new exhibit will spotlight an ill-fated construction project the camp was built to support and feature artifacts from its fleeting existence.

New research shows the ancient site is much older than previously thought. In fact, it’s now confirmed to be the oldest known scientifically dated geoglyph in the Americas, 2,000 years older than the first Pyramids built in Egypt.

Silas John Edwards was a towering figure among the Apache people in Arizona about a century ago — until he was accused of murdering his wife and put behind bars

On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a measure out of its upper chamber that would transform the Chiricahua National Monument into the Grand Canyon State’s newest national park.

Arizona’s history is well documented through its newspapers, and ASU English professor Vanessa Fonseca-Chavez dove deep into the long Spanish-language newspaper history here.

Red light districts operated years after they were outlawed in Tucson. An Arizona historian explored in his recent book what these areas looked like and how women who worked there were treated.

Meet the two Arizonans who worked to preserve a small piece of history in Phoenix's Sunnyslope neighborhood.

Most of us have heard of aviators like Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart. But most of us have probably not heard of another pilot of that era, named Lester Maitland.