News: Department of History

51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ history professor Michael Green on why the state became a magnet for federal projects.
Faculty hire, expected as early as Fall 2018, will further position 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ history department as leader in the study of the Intermountain West.
A unique teaching model at 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ engages students in the classroom and empowers them beyond it.

Barrick Museum display for Dia de los Muertos welcomes additions through this week.

It wasn't a popular decision to tear down Maude Frazier Hall, but the demolition had a silver lining for preservationists.

As both a graduate and a history professor, Michael Green has watched 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ’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 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Creates share their wishes for this fall's incoming students.
Jon Huntsman Sr. gift honors Sen. Harry Reid and will help position 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ 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 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ students win coveted nationally competitive grants to study, research, and teach abroad.