Graduate student Leisl Carr Childers is studying the often contentious relationship between the federal government and ranchers in Nevada.

UNLV organization works to save state's most culturally significant sites from the wrecking block. The reason: To improve our quality of life.

Organization lists most endangered cultural sites in Nevada.

History professor Eugene Moehring is a respected scholar on urban history issues and the West. But the Harry Reid Silver State Research Award recipient says the students are still the most important part of the research equation.

Small-town life during the rise and fall of Southern Nevada's mining industry is chronicled through rarely seen newspaper clippings, photos, and letters in a digital library collection, Southern Nevada: The Boomtown Years 1900-1925.