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UNLV Newsmakers 2026: June
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UNLV Newsmakers 2026: May
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UNLV Newsmakers 2026: April
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A flowery collection of top headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.

UNLV Newsmakers 2026: February
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UNLV Newsmakers 2026: January
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UNLV Newsmakers 2025: November and December 
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History In The News

Mob Museum to host panel on Caesars Palace’s 60th anniversary Aug. 6
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.

Nevada governor’s race still a dead heat as campaigns search for messages that engage
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.

Nevada governor’s race still a dead heat as campaigns search for messages that engage
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.

Is a comeback in the cards for Primm?
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.

The American Revolution: The Long Road
PBS

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

How The Real Life Pioneers Cooked And Ate On The Oregon Trail
The Takeout

There were many dangers and afflictions experienced by those who grabbed everyone they loved, everything they had, and traversed the still-untamed West. How did they survive? Specifically, what did they survive on?

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Andy Kirk
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Recent History Accomplishments

Paul W. Werth
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
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
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
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
Michelle Tusan (History) published, ‘1776: Teaching the Declaration of Independence’ in the Journal of British Studies.
Michael Green
Michael Green (History) presented two programs for "250 to 250," a project created by historian Heather Cox Richardson examining the history of the United States ahead of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
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