In The News: Department of History
Nevada’s US Senator Key Pittman died a few days before the November 1940 reelection that he was favored to win in a landslide. His body was preserved in a bathtub full of ice so his seat could remain Democratic. Or, so the story goes.
Summer means a few things: ice cream cones, tee shirt sweat stains, and a range of new style opportunities. Thanks to the 20-year nostalgia cycle, fashion staples from the '90s and early aughts are having a moment. Whether it's the runway or red carpet, we're seeing the return of low-rise jeans, plenty of butterfly clips, and tube tops.
Panelists at a major casino industry conference said the construction of three new casinos in New York could cost Atlantic City 20% to 30% of its casino revenue, a development that could possibly return the resort to the days of casino closures.
The carnage of the war was so extreme that historians have had a difficult time agreeing on exactly how many people lost their lives.
The shuttered Hawaiian Marketplace shopping complex has been razed to make way for a new 300,000-square-foot shopping center on the east side of Las Vegas Boulevard, just south of Harmon Avenue.
Las Vegas residents are one step closer to not having to drive to Primm to play the lottery.
The shuttered retail complex Hawaiian Marketplace has been demolished to make way for a new 300,000-square-foot retail center on the east side of Las Vegas Boulevard, just south of Harmon Avenue.
In a market relying so heavily on the growth of sports, this initiative envisions itself as the center of sports sciences, business and innovation in Las Vegas. The UNLV Sports Innovation Initiative (SII), which calls itself, “The Hub of Innovation in the Global Sports Capital,” took time at a UFC-owned venue Wednesday to hammer home its mission.
Mark Bauerlein has become disillusioned with the political and academic ideal sometimes called “the free marketplace of ideas,” especially in America’s institutions of higher education.
J ean Munson has had to make a lot of hard decisions in her life, like moving to Las Vegas from Guam in her late teens for college and becoming the first Asian-American woman to open a comic-book publishing company in Nevada.
Prosecutors are asking for the death penalty for a man accused of stabbing and killing another on an RTC bus in February.
Claytee White, director of the Oral History Research Center at UNLV Libraries joined us to talk about two important women in particular - Hattie Canty and Ruby Duncan, and the contributions they've made to U.S. history.