News: Department of History
As both a graduate and a history professor, Michael Green has watched UNLV’s growth with some awe. It’s future, he says, will be all the more astonishing.
New book on 19th century Mexican community proves a written tradition, previously assumed to have ended around the battle for independence, continued beyond.
History professor finds the humanity in a Barrick Museum exhibit meditating on the minutiae of atomic testing history.
The featured speakers from UNLV Creates share their wishes for this fall's incoming students.
Jon Huntsman Sr. gift honors Sen. Harry Reid and will help position UNLV history department as leader in study of the Intermountain West.
Oral historian Claytee White has spent a career recording Las Vegans’ personal histories. Now she speaks about her own remarkable roots.
Three UNLV students win coveted nationally competitive grants to study, research, and teach abroad.
UNLV professor Andy Kirk's "Doom Towns" takes a ground-level view of ground zero, and presents it in the form of graphic novel about Las Vegas' position in the atomic firmament.
Five flapper myths to bust your notion of Roaring Twenties fashion as the UNLV Public History Project prepares to invade the Mob Museum.
Professor Michael Green offers a history lesson in how to say the state's name.
Historian William Bauer chronicles the expeditions of American Indian leaders to Washington D.C. in a free public talk Oct. 5.
History professor Deirdre Clemente chronicles the increasingly casual nature of presidential fashion.