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Department of History News

The Department of History offers a curriculum that embraces the panorama of the past while also helping students fulfill their constitutions, humanities, multicultural, and international requirements. Our programs and courses also aim to enrich student's abilities to research, critically analyze, and effectively communicate.

Current History News

Michael Green
Business and Community |

Has candidate mudslinging and voter vitriol always been this unpleasant? UNLV history expert Michael Green explains the evolution of political decorum in America.

Undergrad researcher Benjamin Sabir helps H. Jeremy Cho examine an atmospheric water harvesting device. (Jeff Scheid/UNLV)
Campus News |

A monthly roundup of the top news stories featuring UNLV staff and students.

Students pass by Lied Library as they walk campus on the first day of Fall 2024 semester classes
Campus News |

A collection of news highlights featuring students and faculty.

desert land with cityscape in distance
Business and Community |

Here's the history behind the 2,000+ acres slated to substantially expand UNLV's footprint in the valley.

Mirage Resort
Campus News |

Roundup of the hottest news headlines featuring UNLV students and staff.

Josh Hawkins, UNLV
Campus News |

News highlights featuring UNLV students and staff who made (refreshing) waves in the headlines.

History In The News

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

Early voting is off to a running start in Clark County, but just how many people are taking advantage of this convenience? Saturday was the first day of early voting in Nevada, and Clark County said 29,943 people voted in person at polling places. On Sunday, that number was 17,567.

Route Fifty

For the first time since 1995, a member of the flamboyant Goodman family won’t be on the ballot in Las Vegas. Mayor Carolyn Goodman is term-limited. But the race to succeed her is roiled by issues about the city’s future, not its past.

KSNV-TV: News 3

Las Vegas is one of the top international destinations in the world these days. A city full of diversity, but its roots come from Hispanic influence.

KSNV-TV: News 3

Las Vegas is one of the top international destinations in the world these days. A city full of diversity, but its roots come from Hispanic influence.

American Tributaries Podcast

Michael Green lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he is a professor and department chair for the history department at the Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­. He specializes in Nevada and Las Vegas history as well as 19th Century American history. Michael is the rare local Vegas resident who actually grew up there. Michael finds hope in his students and in the seeming inevitability of progress.

USA Today

Las Vegas is leaning into sports. There’s a shiny new NFL stadium, which in February hosted the Super Bowl. Annual Formula 1 races across the Strip. UFC fights in the Las Vegas Sphere. Arenas hosting NHL and WNBA teams.

History Experts

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Recent History Accomplishments

John Curry (History) was published in a Book Forum in the online journal Maydan, a publication of the Abu Sulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University. The forum discussed the recent publication of Hayrettin Yücesoy's "Disenchanting the Caliphate: The Secular Discipline of Power in Abbasid…
Dr. Noria Litaker's (History) book, Bedazzled Saints: Catacomb Relics in Early Modern Bavaria (University of Virginia Press) has been shortlisted for the Ecclesiastical History Society's 2024 Book Prize.  The prize recognizes the best first monograph on the history of Christianity published during the previous calendar year.  
Andy Kirk (History; Reid Public History Institute) presented his paper, "Bringing the Theory & Method of Environmental History to the Practice of Cultural Resource Management — Researching The California Surfing History Multiple Property Documentation," at the World Congress of Environmental History at Oulu University in Oulu Finland. The…
Michelle Tusan's (History) book, The Last Treaty, was featured on the New Books Network. The interview is available online.
John Haberstroh (History) facilitated a workshop discussion called "Chatting about ChatGPT II" at the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (PCB-AHA) at the University of Hawaii, Manoa on August 2. This discussion continued a conversation began at last year's annual meeting on the instructional,…
Jeff Schauer (History) participated in a workshop, New Histories of Childhood and Youth in Southern Africa, at the University of the Free State, in Bloemfontein, South Africa.   Schauer's paper was titled "Children, Conservation, and Zambia's Environmental Turn," and explored Chongololo, the children's conservation clubs and magazine.…