News: Department of History

illustration of Maude Frazier Hall and Hospitality Hall
51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ History |

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

aerial shot of the university in 1960
51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ History |

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.

Cover of The Aztecs at Indepencence
Research |

New book on 19th century Mexican community proves a written tradition, previously assumed to have ended around the battle for independence, continued beyond.

two women looking at art exhibit
Arts and Culture |

History professor finds the humanity in a Barrick Museum exhibit meditating on the minutiae of atomic testing history.

A speaker on stage
Campus News |

The featured speakers from 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Creates share their wishes for this fall's incoming students.

Len Dessup shakes hands with Jon Huntsman, Sr. with Sen. Harry Reid watching on
Campus News |

Jon Huntsman Sr. gift honors Sen. Harry Reid and will help position 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ history department as leader in study of the Intermountain West.

Claytee White, Director, Oral History Research Center at the Historic Westside School
People |

Oral historian Claytee White has spent a career recording Las Vegans’ personal histories. Now she speaks about her own remarkable roots.

President Len Jessup speaks next to Hannah Kelley
Campus News |

Three 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ students win coveted nationally competitive grants to study, research, and teach abroad.

An illustration of a newspaper cover featuring the Hiroshima bombing
Research |

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.

Alice Joyce
Arts and Culture |

Five flapper myths to bust your notion of Roaring Twenties fashion as the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Public History Project prepares to invade the Mob Museum.

Nevada
Campus News |

Professor Michael Green offers a history lesson in how to say the state's name.

Sarah Winnemucca and Rutherford B. Hayes
Campus News |

Historian William Bauer chronicles the expeditions of American Indian leaders to Washington D.C. in a free public talk Oct. 5.