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Knowledge of the Human Past and Experience

Providing a historically informed perspective on the contemporary world and the challenges that it faces.

The History Department provides students with a broad knowledge of the human past and experience...

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Academic Programs

Undergraduate Program
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Graduate Program
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List of Degrees
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What's Happening

Thing-makers, Tool Freaks and Prototypers
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Jul. 17, 2018

How the Whole Earth Catalog’s optimistic message reinvented the environmental movement in 1968
UNLV Newsmakers: June 2018
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Jul. 12, 2018

A collection of recent news stories highlighting the people and programs of UNLV.
Nevada as a Dumping Ground: It's not Just Yucca Mountain
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Jun. 4, 2018

UNLV history professor Michael Green on why the state became a magnet for federal projects.
UNLV Raises $2.2 Million to Fund Harry Reid Endowed Chair in History
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Nov. 15, 2017

Faculty hire, expected as early as Fall 2018, will further position UNLV history department as leader in the study of the Intermountain West.

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Experts

  • Jeff Schauer
    Assistant Professor of History
  • A.B. Wilkinson
    Assistant Professor of History
  • Andrew Kirk
    Director, UNLV Public History Education Program
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