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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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News highlights featuring UNLV students and staff who made (refreshing) waves in the headlines.

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Changing majors propelled Liberal Arts student Angie Shenouda into unexpected opportunities.

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News highlights starring UNLV students and faculty who made local and national headlines.

Spring Flowers (Becca Schwartz)
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A roundup of the top news stories featuring UNLV students and faculty.

The Las Vegas strip as seen on Super Bowl weekend (Josh Hawkins/UNLV).
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A collection of news stories and highlights featuring UNLV students and faculty.

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Ombuds David G. Schwartz provides a safe space for hearing your workplace concerns.

History In The News

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Michael Green, a UNLV professor whose expertise lies at the intersection of U.S. history and politics, cautions against buying into social media chatter, suggesting that the weekend assassination attempt against Donald Trump will influence a victory in the 2024 presidential election. According to Green, history shows that election projections are unpredictable.

Las Vegas Review Journal

The old stucco houses on Casino Center Boulevard and Third Street downtown don’t seem particularly distinguished at first glance. One, with a mix of dirty and boarded windows, looks forlorn. The other is a simple, one story bail bonds office. There’s no plaque to mark them and nothing to indicate that they have any historical significance.

Las Vegas Review Journal

The Mirage hotel-casino is often cited as being a trailblazer and the first true mega resort in Las Vegas. The “Oasis in the Desert” changed the way casinos approached the business of making money and how the outside world perceived Las Vegas.

KSNV-TV: News 3

Posts on social media suggest some voters believe former president Donald Trump has already won the 2024 presidential election after surviving an assassination attempt. UNLV history professor, Michael Green, says history shows that projection is unpredictable.

TODAY Show

The Mirage, an iconic hotel and casino in Las Vegas that opened in 1989, is set to close its doors for good next week — but must first hand out around $1.6 million in cash and prizes. NBC’s Morgan Chesky reports for TODAY.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Barb Edgemon and her late husband Daryn began their love affair with The Mirage hotel-casino during their honeymoon in 1995. The newlyweds from Spokane, Washington, were both blackjack dealers and spending time at one of the world’s premier casino properties was a natural fit.

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Recent History Accomplishments

Jeff Schauer (History) participated in a workshop, New Histories of Childhood and Youth in Southern Africa, at the University of the Free State, in Bloemfontein, South Africa.   Schauer's paper was titled "Children, Conservation, and Zambia's Environmental Turn," and explored Chongololo, the children's conservation clubs and magazine.…
John Curry (History) acted as an Early Table Leader for the College Board's Advanced Placement World History: Modern examination in Kansas City, Missouri. The exam was taken by over 400,000 high school students around the country. Having helped to design this year's exams, he worked with the leadership of the College Board to set the scoring…
Joshua Coleman (History), Ph.D. candidate, presented a paper titled "Jicarilla Apache, Project Gasbuggy, and the Early Years of Fracking in Indian Country" at the annual conference of the Historians of the Twentieth Century United States at the University of Southampton, in Southampton, England. Coleman's research examined the connections between…
Analiesa Delgado (History), a Ph.D. candidate, presented a paper titled "Escaping the Shadows: 'Runaways,' Kinship, and Community Building at the Greenville Indian School" at the annual conference of the Historians of the Twentieth Century United States at the University of Southhampton, in Southampton, England. Delgado's research used the story…
Susan Lee Johnson (History) has been elected to membership in the Society of American Historians, an organization dedicated to literary excellence in writing history and biography. Johnson is the first UNLV faculty member to be invited to join the society. On May 13, 2024, Johnson attended the society's annual dinner in New York City, where…
Ileana Jara Yupanqui (Linguistics), Miriam Melton-Villanueva (History), and Blanca Rincón (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) were selected to receive a 2024 Faculty Opportunity Award (FOA) for project entitled "A Planning Grant for NEH: Mural of Knowledges."