News: Department of History
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.
51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ 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 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ 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.