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History Department News and Activities

Careers for History Majors
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Preserve Nevada Offers Opportunities to History Graduate Students
Preserve Nevada offers a combination of courses and hands-on internships that prepare students to take their valuable skills out into the community to work. Learn more »

Las Vegas Women Oral Histories are Now Available
The Women's Research Institute of Nevada (WRIN) created the Las Vegas Oral History project to address the scarcity of historical research on women in the state. The project's oral historians have interviewed more than 50 Nevada women whose lives and work bring an essential perspective to the story of Nevada. Learn more »

Phi Alpha Theta at UNLV Continues a Tradition

Founded in 1921, Phi Alpha Theta is the international history honors society. Phi Alpha Theta’s mission is to promote the study of history through encouragement of research, good teaching, publication, and the exchange of learning and ideas among historians. Learn more »

Nevada Test Site Oral History Project
The Nevada Test Site Oral History Project documents, preserves and disseminates the remembered past of persons affiliated with and impacted by Cold War nuclear testing from 1951 through 1992. The diversity of project participants includes: national laboratory scientists and engineers; miners, electricians, and labor trades; cabinet-level officials, military officers and contractor executives; atomic veterans, support personnel and administrative staff. Integral to the project are Native American tribal leaders, radiation survivors, families and communities living downwind of the site, and peace groups. Learn more »