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Department of History News

The Department of History offers a curriculum that embraces the panorama of the past while also helping students fulfill their constitutions, humanities, multicultural, and international requirements. Our programs and courses also aim to enrich student's abilities to research, critically analyze, and effectively communicate.

Current History News

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Some of the biggest news headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.

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Welcome to the fabulous history of the Entertainment Capital of the World.

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A selection of top news headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.

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Felicia Hersh’s original career plan vanished in the blink of an eye. Thankfully, another quickly surfaced, nudging the Liberal Arts Alumna of the Year into a career rich with history.

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The top news stories starring university students and staff.

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The College of Liberal Arts series connects the campus and community with experts who explore issues and the power of ideas.

History In The News

Huffington Post

MAGA is seeing red over a pink J.Crew sweater for men.

Business Insider

Humans have been building cities for centuries, but they don't always last. In some cases, nature has reclaimed them. Other times, people simply built on top of older structures.

A+E

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.

Casino Reports

These are crazy times in the industry, and customers should take advantage while they can.

KSNV-TV: News 3

It's been 45 years since one of the most significant and tragic moments in Las Vegas history. A fire at the MGM Grand on Nov. 21, 1980 led to 85 people dying and hundreds more getting injured.

Las Vegas Weekly

The Arts District will soon get a new retail store stocked with Native-made arts and crafts. The nonprofit IndigenousAF, founded by local artist Fawn Douglas and UNLV professor A.B. Wilkinson, announced last week that it has already met one-third of a three-year fundraising goal for the space near Charleston Boulevard and 3rd Street.

History Experts

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Recent History Accomplishments

Michelle Tusan (History) was interviewed on Eating the Past for Utah Public Radio on Armenian foodways.
Michelle Tusan (History) delivered the Presidential address, sponsored by the Royal Historical Society, at the annual North American Conference on British Studies in Montreal. Her talk was entitled: ‘What Liberalism Requires: The Very Victorian Marriage of J.S. Mill and Harriet Taylor.’ She will now serve as Immediate Past President of NACBS.
Paul Werth (History) has published a Russian translation of his book "1837: Russia's Quiet Revolution" (Oxford, 2021), with the publisher Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie in Moscow. The Russian version appears as "1837: Russia's Hidden Transformation," because the Putin regime does not like revolutions, even "quiet" ones (i.e., ones by stealth, under…
Michael Green (History) presented a lecture, "The Tropicana: From Tiffany to Island to Gone," at the Clark County Museum on Nov. 13.
Michael Green and A.B. Wilkinson (both History) participated as panelists at a special Vegas PBS preview event for the forthcoming documentary, "The American Revolution," produced by Ken Burns and his company.
Jeff Schauer (History) was the subject of a feature story that also appears in the newsletter of the Nordic Africa Institute. NAI, based in Uppsala (Sweden), represents a collaboration between Nordic governments, and "conducts research and offers resources that help further understanding about contemporary Africa." The newsletter…