In The News: Department of History

There are many states in America where a governor shares the ticket with his or her running mate. Nevada is not one of them.

Las Vegas could be on the verge of landing an NBA expansion team, but a major question remains unresolved: where the team would play.
These Vegas spots may be long gone, but they live on through our memories (well, what we can remember of them.)
Professor David G. Schwartz talks about an impromptu memorial after the September 11 terrorist attacks, previously exhibited at the New York-New York Hotel & Casino, during a tour of the Special Collections and Archives department at the UNLV Lied Library in Las Vegas, NV, on Thursday, September 3, 2026. Schwartz curated the items after the hotel removed them from the street-side memorial.
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.
Experts interviewed by Macau Business in both Macau and Nevada point to two defining future challenges: the integration of artificial intelligence and the intensifying demands of external regulation.
When Macau outstripped Las Vegas...the two business models that are driven by such fundamentally different dynamics that they are unlikely ever to converge, let alone replicate one another.