Petroglyph engravings in the side of a rock formation in the desert.

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.

Current History News

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A collection of top headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.

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A collection of top headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.

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A flowery collection of top headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.

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Some of the hottest headlines featuring UNLV faculty, staff, and students.

Some early studying during the opening week of the Spring 2026 semester (Josh Hawkins/UNLV).
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A look at some of the most eye-grabbing headlines featuring UNLV faculty, staff, and students.

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A collection of the top news headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.

History In The News

KSNV-TV: News 3

Las Vegas could be on the verge of landing an NBA expansion team, but a major question remains unresolved: where the team would play.

Fodor’s Travel

These Vegas spots may be long gone, but they live on through our memories (well, what we can remember of them.)

Orange County Register

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.

The Chronicle of Higher Education

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.

Orange County Register

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.

Desert Companion

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.

History Experts

An expert on commercial aviation, airport history, and travel.
Kirk is an expert who studies the intersections of cultural and environmental history in the modern U.S. with a special interest in the American West.
An expert on Russia, religion, and U.S. and international history.
A historian and curator of 20th century American culture, specializing in clothing, political fashion, and the use of fashion in the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald. 
An expert in Nevada, Civil War, and gaming history.
Finding the intersection of the end of British colonial rule in African and how it affected wildlife conservation.

Recent History Accomplishments

John Haberstroh (History) 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. This grading system also allows students the opportunity…
In collaboration with the Nevada Center for Civic Engagement (NVCCE), the University of Nevada, Reno Center for Constitutional Law hosted educators from across Nevada for the 2026 Summer Teacher Institute at UNR’s Lake Tahoe campus. David Tanenhaus (Law, History) engaged participants in exploring constitutional history, Supreme Court jurisprudence…
John Curry (History) presented a paper titled "The Life of Ünsi Hasan Efendi (d. 1723): Failed Saint, or Indicator of Structural Change in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Empire?" in a panel on Empires and Ideologies at the American Historical Association's Pacific Coast Branch Annual Meeting held on the UNLV campus on July 30-31. He also chaired a…
Gregory Brown, John Curry, John Haberstroh, Jeff Schauer, A.B. Wilkinson, Dakota Ciolkosz, Fabian Rebolledo, Connor Young, Jessica Ayala Venegas, Natalie Dechaine, Nathan Pormentira, Emma Vermillion, EJ Decastro, Demetrius Khananisho Tolliver, Adrien (all History) presented at the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association…
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…