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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.
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A look at some of the most eye-grabbing headlines featuring UNLV faculty, staff, and students.
A collection of the top news headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.
History In The News
John Haberstroh was interviewed for the weekly teaching newsletter of The Chronicle of Higher Education on alternative grading practices in humanities courses. Using specifications grading, Haberstroh communicates high expectations and increases transparency for students.
SCNG journalists' first stop en route to New York for the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks is the fake version where genuine feelings were shared.

The demise of the Sun’s print edition brings on a flood of memories about local newspapering’s glory days — the characters, the stories, the changing times.

Touted as a civil engineering marvel before construction even began, the immense Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge hangs about 90 stories above the Colorado River, overlooking the storied Hoover Dam.

Last time, we were talking about Ruby Duncan, who died recently at age 93. In the late 1960s, she found herself on welfare. And she and other Black women found the system worked against them.

Many of those lives lost on 9/11 are remembered in the UNLV Special Collections and Archives at the Lied Library. In the wake of the attacks, an impromptu shrine formed outside of New York-New York on the Las Vegas Strip.
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