Research
| October 17, 2022
Silver Screen to Silver State
The Walking Box Ranch is a direct link to the world of 1930s Hollywood glamor and a vital resource for UNLV's students of historic preservation.
Articles Featuring Andy Kirk
Research
| July 17, 2018
Thing-makers, Tool Freaks and Prototypers
How the Whole Earth Catalog’s optimistic message reinvented the environmental movement in 1968
Campus News
| November 15, 2017
UNLV Raises $2.2 Million to Fund Harry Reid Endowed Chair in History
Faculty hire, expected as early as Fall 2018, will further position UNLV history department as leader in the study of the Intermountain West.
UNLV History
| October 18, 2017
Grasping at the Past
It wasn't a popular decision to tear down Maude Frazier Hall, but the demolition had a silver lining for preservationists.
Arts and Culture
| August 30, 2017
Doom Towns and Toxic Archives
History professor finds the humanity in a Barrick Museum exhibit meditating on the minutiae of atomic testing history.
Research
| November 16, 2016
Atomic Testing, One Panel at a Time
UNLV 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.
People
| July 17, 2013
Las Vegas: 'A Place Out of Place'
The director of UNLV's public history program explains why the myth that Las Vegas has no history persists.
Research
| November 1, 2005
Recollections of Nevada’s Nuclear Past
The Nevada Test Site Oral History Project is documenting, preserving, and disseminating the stories of those involved in one of the most technologically sophisticated yet controversial endeavors in Nevada’s history