Arizona History

If you’re looking for something less cutesy to celebrate your own Februalia, Valentine or Galentine’s Day, The Show staff has a few ideas.

Phoenix has a reputation, fair or not, of a boom town where old buildings often get demolished. Hit songs were recorded in midtown decades ago. In the 1960s, that success led to construction of what was once the top studio between Dallas and LA.

Homer Thiel documented hundreds of the saloons that crowded Tucson’s streets in the late 1800s. He even dug one of them up. Thiel is an archaeologist and the author of the book "Saloons of Tucson, Arizona Territory" — a 337-page chronicling of the rich history of Tucson saloons

These days, Colorado City, Arizona, and neighboring Hildale, Utah, look much like any other town in this remote and picturesque area near Zion National Park, with weekend soccer games, a few bars, and even a winery.

Donofrio’s was a candy store, which also sold ice cream, and later added a bakery and flower shop. It opened in downtown Phoenix in 1887, moved to a different location downtown in 1905 and then again to another spot in the 1920s.

These are the stories Nia Watkins tells on her TikTok channel, “Arizona, But Make It Black.” It’s her attempt to illustrate the role of Black history in shaping the culture of the state.

A Western museum in the town of Wickenburg has changed its name and an expansion project is underway after getting one of the largest gifts made to an arts and cultural organization in state history.

As the country celebrates its 250th anniversary, states including Arizona are rolling out their own celebrations.

The 2025 Endangered Latinx Landmarks report includes a Texas cemetery, a bar in LA, agriculture labor housing in Colorado and a market in Tucson.

There was a the battle between Tucson and Prescott over which city would be the territorial capital of Arizona.