In The News: Department of History

Association of American Colleges and Universities

Mary-Ann Winkelmes has posed some of the most important questions in higher education today. As the director of the Transparency in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Project, she urges faculty to think about how they teach by asking their students to think about how they learn. We interviewed Mary-Ann in August 2015 to discuss teaching and learning, and how greater intentionality can deepen student learning and boost student success. (Interview posted: September 2, 2015)

Las Vegas Review Journal

If you go to school at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, fly into McCarran International Airport or party on the Las Vegas Strip, you're technically not in Las Vegas — you're in Clark County.

Time

I study one of the most profound cultural changes of the 20th century: the rise of casual dress.

Las Vegas Review Journal

At age 12, Mark Brandenburg mopped the basement floors at Las Vegas' first casino: the Golden Gate at 1 Fremont St. Nearly 50 years later, he has his own office in the building as its president and shareholder.

KNPR News

Our friends in Boulder City—and around Nevada and Arizona and California—are justly proud of Hoover Dam. Its construction made the growth of these areas possible, or at least more possible. Certainly, Las Vegas couldn’t have the population it has without the water from Lake Mead. And we wouldn’t be having the debates we’re having about water and our future, either.

Las Vegas Sun
Just north of downtown, sandwiched between Ewing Brothers Towing and Main Street, lies a sovereign nation.
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Kirk Kerkorian changed the way Vegas did business. The founder of MGM Resorts International died yesterday at his home in California. NPR's Sam Sanders reports.
Las Vegas Weekly
UNLV history professor Michael Green just published Nevada: A History of the Silver State, the most comprehensive text of its kind in decades. Though he’s considered a foremost expert on Nevada’s past, even Green encountered a few surprises during his research.
Las Vegas Review Journal
Michael Green knows them all. The scalawags, the thieves, the killers, the saints, the sinners, the heroes, the odd fellows and just about everyone, and everything, that had or has something to do with Nevada’s evolution.
More than 1,200 people gathered for the groundbreaking ceremony of the Armenian Genocide Memorial Monument at Sunset Park which is the largest area park and centrally located in Las Vegas, Asbarez reports.
Vegas Seven
Based on what has happened (and hasn’t happened) in Carson City for the past few months, the 2015 Legislature seems to be doing its best to go down as the worst in our state’s 151-year history.
Las Vegas Review Journal

Kristina Hernandez waited nearly a year before she could use the girl’s restroom at Harney Middle School.