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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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History In The News

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The Las Vegas Review-Journal is no longer printing the Las Vegas Sun in its pages — at least for now. The longtime rival newspapers published competing op-eds to mark the change, which came after continued legal battles. But why was the Review-Journal printing the Sun in the first place, and should it continue doing so? Host Sonja Cho Swanson is getting the scoop on this modern newspaper war from UNLV history professor Michael Green, and longtime media observer and lawyer Dayvid Figler.

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With the United States' ceasefire in Iran lasting less than 24 hours, some anti-war activists in southern Nevada say they are not surprised to hear of the latest developments between the U.S. and Iran. Wednesday afternoon, an anti-war rally gathered just outside of the Nellis Air Force Base consisting of around 20 demonstrators calling for the United States to follow its word on ceasefire negotiations as promised.

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A Clark County commissioner announced he will begin the process of removing Cesar Chavez’s name from a park in his district following sexual abuse and rape allegations against the late civil rights leader. Commissioner Tick Segerblom said the East Valley park, named after the labor leader in 2002, should be changed following what he called “horrific revelations.”

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It was down to the wire, having left just two hours before President Trump’s deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but Tuesday afternoon, the two countries agreed to a two-week ceasefire. However, UNLV history professor Dr. Michael Green says the deal could go either way.

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UNLV historian Michael Green likes to refer to Nevada’s prominence in national politics in baseball terms. “If you consider politics a spectator sport, this is the seat right behind home plate — or even in the dugout,” he said. Green has quipped that so many presidential hopefuls make their rounds here that his familiarity with them makes him feel as if they’ve slept on his couch. He doesn’t expect that to change in the run-up to the 2028 election.

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Chavez was a widely admired Latino icon who brought to light the struggles of farmhands and led the United Farm Workers union until his death in 1993. Earlier this month, labor rights activist Dolores Huerta revealed she was among multiple women and girls who say they were sexually abused by César Chavez.

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Recent History Accomplishments

John Curry (History) was a presenter on a roundtable at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) this past weekend. The roundtable was titled "Reactions to Authoritarianism: Connecting the Historical to the Contemporary," and included several UNLV faculty members from various global fields…
Michelle Tusan's (History) NACBS Presidential Address, "What Liberalism Requires: The Very Victorian Marriage of J. S. Mill and Harriet Hardy Taylor," has been published in the Journal of British Studies.  https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2025.10186.
Michelle Tusan's (History) book, The Last Treaty: Lausanne and the End of the First World War, has come out in paperback by Cambridge University Press. 
John Curry (History) presented a paper titled, "Overlooked Contexts: How Shifting Mediterranean Relationships Contributed to the Muradid Wars of Succession," on Nov. 23 at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association in Washington, D.C. The paper was part of a broader panel on "Outsiders and Intermediaries in Ottoman Tunis and the…
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.