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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.

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History In The News

Nevada Independent

Minja Yan's victory was unexpected for some on election night. Despite a lack of institutional support, some say she has has what it takes to win in November.

Las Vegas Sun

The Mob Museum will host "Not Built in a Day: The Epic Story of Caesars Palace," a panel discussion marking the 60th anniversary of the iconic Strip resort. The panel will feature Jay Sarno Jr., Bill Weinberger Jr., and UNLV gaming historian David G. Schwartz, who will explain how Caesars Palace helped transform Las Vegas into an international destination.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Gov. Joe Lombardo and Attorney General Aaron Ford remain neck-and-neck in polling data with just over three months remaining in Nevada’s gubernatorial campaign.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Gov. Joe Lombardo and Attorney General Aaron Ford remain neck-and-neck in polling data with just over three months remaining in Nevada’s gubernatorial campaign.

Travel Weekly

For decades, when drivers from Southern California passed the Nevada state line on their way to Las Vegas, three boisterous, kitschy hotel-casinos on both sides of Interstate 15 greeted them.

PBS

UNLV History Professor Michael Green connects the ideals of the American Revolution to the history of the Silver State.

History Experts

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Recent History Accomplishments

Paul Werth (History) published an essay titled “Armenians, Empire, and the Politics of Conversion in 19th Century Russia,” in a volume, "Religious Conversion and Imperial Rule" (Frankfurt, 2026). That he did this rather than starting bar fights, slashing tires, and breaking windows in the neighborhood is convincing testament to the civilizing…
Paul W. Werth (History) gave an interview in June on the YouTube channel of Universitatea de Medicină, Farmacie, Științe și Tehnologie in the Romanian city of Târgu Mureș. Inquiring minds may wonder why. The answer is clear: When asked by colleagues at a Transylvanian university to speak on their YouTube channel about the fate of religious freedom…
Jeff Schauer (History) presented work at the European Congress of Conservation Biology at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Based on archival research in the National Archives of Zambia and the Natural History Museum (London), Schauer argued that critical qualitative historical analysis of the processes by which conservationists…
John Curry (History) presented a paper entitled "The Hagiography of Ünsi Hasan Efendi (d. 1723) as a marker of socio-cultural shifts in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire" at the 26th meeting of the CIÉPO (Comité International des Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes) Symposium, held in Varna, Bulgaria. His paper was part of a panel entitled…
John Curry (History) presented a paper entitled "Tracking the Lives of Sufi Leaders Through Their Mecmua Collections" at a symposium organized on "Mecmuas in the Ottoman World: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Current Research." Held in June at the University of Vienna in Austria, the workshop focused on the use of pre-modern handbooks…
Michelle Tusan (History) published, ‘1776: Teaching the Declaration of Independence’ in the Journal of British Studies.