The history department consists of nearly two dozen full-time faculty, several part-time instructors, and graduate student instructors deeply involved in undergraduate and graduate programs.. We are ingrained in UNLV’s history: We are in the building named for the first tenured history professor at what became UNLV, John S. Wright. We offer a variety of courses ranging from legal history to sports history, from early North America to Africa, from climate change to animals. We are deeply involved in public history, including the Reid Public History Institute and Preserve Nevada.