Michael Green

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Professor and Chair, History

Expertise: Nevada, Gaming, Civil War Era, Politics

Biography

Michael Green is a professor of history at UNLV and teaches classes for both the history department and the Honors College. His courses range throughout U.S. history, but his teaching and research particularly focus on Las Vegas and Nevada history, the Civil War era and Abraham Lincoln, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

He is the author of Nevada: A History of the Silver State and co-author of Las Vegas: A Centennial History, among other books and articles about Nevada. He has published three books on the Civil War era, including Lincoln and the Election of 1860 and Politics and America in Crisis: The Coming of the Civil War. He writes "Nevada Yesterdays," read by former U.S. Senator Richard Bryan, for KNPR and Nevada Humanities. A former journalist, he has served as a columnist for Nevada's Washington Watch and Vegas Seven. He is a member of the board of directors for The Mob Museum, for which he was one of the researchers.

Education

Ph.D., Columbia University
M.A., University of Nevada, Las Vegas
B.A., University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Boulder Highway business and residential expansion to continue in 2026

The iconic Joker's Wild casino is undergoing significant changes as Boyd Gaming plans to replace it with the new Cadence Crossing.

Frank Sinatra: The Las Vegas Story

Let’s play word association. If I said entertainers and Las Vegas, what combinations come to mind? A lot of them, I’m sure. Liberace, certainly. Siegfried and Roy, of course. Wayne Newton? Sure. You might think of other entertainers, or symbols like the showgirl, the production show, or the Cirque show. But you can’t talk about entertainment in Las Vegas without talking about the Rat Pack. And you can’t talk about the Rat Pack without talking about its leader, Frank Sinatra. December 12th marked the centennial of the birth of the chairman of the board.

Fremont Street celebrates 30 years with holiday festivities

The Fremont Street Experience is marking a major milestone this weekend, celebrating 30 years since the unveiling of "The Canopy" — what was once the largest LED screen in the world. But the history of Fremont Street runs far deeper than its famous light show. The street has served as the heart of Las Vegas since the city's earliest days.

From 'Black Mass' to 'The Departed': How Whitey Bulger Inspired Movie and TV Mob Bosses

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Notorious Boston kingpin James “Whitey” Bulger’s reign over the city’s criminal underworld has proven one few gangsters could emulate in real life. But in Hollywood, the high-profile, Irish American mob boss has served as a blueprint for loathsome and complex characters in several blockbuster movies and television story lines. The late Bulger’s astonishing double life as an infamous, ruthless gang leader who simultaneously served as a top-level FBI informant is considered by some to be cinema gold.