A new campus exhibit and speaker series at the University of Arizona explores America's history of protests and civil discourse.

The free exhibit, "You Say You Want a Revolution: Politics and Art in the 1960s," is on display now through March on the lower level of the Campus Store at the Student Union Memorial Center. The display provides a timeline of political protests in America during the 1960s and '70s, covering the Civil Rights Movement, the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., and the election of President Richard M. Nixon. It also includes campaign memorabilia and other political artifacts from the period.

The exhibit comes from the Museum of Democracy, based at Long Island University in New York. The university's Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, also known as the Freedom Center, brought the exhibit to the Campus Store in partnership with the museum and the Arizona Board of Regents' Presidential Project, a civic education program designed to foster knowledge of the American presidencies and presidential elections among undergraduate students, high school students and the broader community.

"We are grateful to be part of a university and a state that values fostering opportunities for civil discourse, especially during times when such conversations can be more challenging," said Saura Masconale, associate director of the Freedom Center. "This is the mission of the Freedom Center – to serve as a university-wide forum for healthy disagreement, a space where people can come together to discuss differing views without ending up hating each other."

The exhibit coincides with a conversation series that begins on Oct. 8 with a discussion between Cornel West, a philosopher who is running for U.S. president as an independent, and Robert George, director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. The two will discuss American values, protests and civil disagreement. Jay Nordlinger, editor of the National Review, will moderate.

The free, public event will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the lower level of the Campus Store. Registration is required. 

The second event in the series, on Oct. 24, will feature Johanna Maska, former press aide to President Barack Obama, and Sean Spicer, former press secretary for President Donald Trump. The two will discuss bridging the country's political divide ahead of the U.S. election. The talk begins at 7 p.m. in Environment and Natural Resources 2, Room S107.