Topic: Las Vegas

signs holding memorial
Business and Community | October 26, 2017

UNLV Libraries partners with area museums to preserve the stories and artifacts related to the mass shooting in Las Vegas.

Claytee White, Director, Oral History Research Center at the Historic Westside School
People | June 14, 2017

Oral historian Claytee White has spent a career recording Las Vegans’ personal histories. Now she speaks about her own remarkable roots.

Jerome D. Countess holds a portrait of his late wife, Rachel
Business and Community | February 13, 2017

Photographer Aaron Mayes shares the story behind his award-winning photo for the Libraries' Jewish Heritage Project.

Alice Joyce
Arts and Culture | November 7, 2016

Five flapper myths to bust your notion of Roaring Twenties fashion as the UNLV Public History Project prepares to invade the Mob Museum.

renderings of maryland parkway
Business and Community | July 1, 2016

Through UNLV's Downtown Design Center, architecture students learn vital lessons in collaboration during neighborhood redevelopment.

Ai Ja, Min, and Sue Kim
Arts and Culture | December 18, 2015

Long before K-pop, there were the Kim Sisters. Now an Eadington Fellow is exploring what their meteroic rise on Las Vegas entertainment scene has to do with American ideals of beauty, citizenship and capitalism amidst Cold War politics.

World Series of Poker game
Campus News | November 16, 2015

Eadington Fellow dives into UNLV's archives to examine the relationship between sports media and cultural memory in poker's main event.

Brittany Bronson and George Saunders
Arts and Culture | May 5, 2015

UNLV English instructor Brittany Bronson named a New York Times opinion writer. Plus new books on Nevada history and women in the workforce.

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Business and Community | July 21, 2014

The nonprofit organization COLAB Las Vegas is creating opportunities for local artists to win major public arts projects. Meet the UNLV alumni behind it.

Andy Kirk
People | July 17, 2013

The director of UNLV's public history program explains why the myth that Las Vegas has no history persists.

Oldest book on gaming in the UNLV Libraries collection
Research | April 2, 2013

UNLV's Center for Gaming Research dispels some of the more enduring misconceptions about gambling.