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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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A collection of the top news headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.
History In The News

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.
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