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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Campus News |

The rosiest headlines and highlights featuring the students and faculty of UNLV.

spring flowers
Campus News |

The rosiest headlines and highlights featuring the students and faculty of UNLV.

A UNLV student studies with the Strip in the distance.
Campus News |

Headlines and highlights featuring the students and faculty of UNLV.

clothing and other items from Holocaust exhibit
Campus News |

UNLV’s public history class creates exhibit to share collector's rare and powerful artifacts related to the Holocaust.

Hospitality student David Jelinksy fishes in the UNLV pool. Members of the UNLV Swim Team dive underneath the water.
People |

UNLV student and 'Survivor' contestant David Jelinsky returns to campus with lessons learned from his reality show appearance.

UNLV XMAS
Campus News |

This month’s frosty headlines and highlights from the students and faculty of UNLV.

History In The News

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) held a rally Sunday afternoon to oppose reported efforts to take away the independence of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). Around 100 demonstrators gathered at the intersection of Eastern and Sunset, holding signs and chanting "U.S. mail is not for sale."

KSNV-TV: News 3

As the world awaits potential revelations from the Kennedy files, John F. Kennedy's connections to Las Vegas remain a fascinating chapter in history.

KSNV-TV: News 3

Metro Police and the FBI Las Vegas Field office are investigating after multiple cars were set on fire at Tesla Collision Center Tuesday morning. It was one of several incidents that have occurred across the country in the past week with authorities saying it may have been politically motivated.

The National News Desk

Metro Police and the FBI Las Vegas Field office are investigating after multiple cars were set on fire at Tesla Collision Center Tuesday morning. It was one of several incidents that have occurred across the country in the past week with authorities saying it may have been politically motivated.

CBS News

While St. Patrick's Day celebrations often produce images of T-shirts donning "Kiss me, I'm Irish," leprechaun hats and pubs full of people, the holiday holds a deeper meaning. Here's a look at who Ireland's patron saint was and why he is celebrated each year.

Las Vegas Sun

A line of people wound toward the doors of UNLV’s Greenspun Hall on Wednesday night, clutching in their hands copies of “Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict,” the thick novel of award-winning journalist Yardena Schwartz.

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Recent History Accomplishments

Michelle Tusan (History) was a panelist for the Chamber of Commerce Women's History Month event.
Michael J. Alarid (History) published "Crime and Punishment in a Nineteenth Century Western Community" in The Routledge History of Crime in America (Routledge, 2025). Covering a broad chronology from the colonial era to the present, this volume reflects the diverse approaches, interests and findings of an international group of new and established…
Paul W. Werth (History) has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of a research inquiry entitled "Russia's Other Eastern Church: The Armenian Confession and the Romanov Empire," which explores the implication of Armenian Christianity in Tsarist Russia's imperial structures, geopolitical projects, and…
Michelle Tusan (History) published, "A Fictional Special Relationship," for a series on Britain and the U.S. presidency.
Noria Litaker's (History) recent book, "Bedazzled Saints: Catacomb Relics in Early Modern Bavaria," won the Gerald Strauss Prize awarded by the Sixteenth Century Society. The prize recognizes the best book published in English during the preceding year in the field of German Reformation history. 
Jeff Schauer (History) participated in the annual meeting of the North American Conference on British Studies in Denver. Schauer organized a panel on "Race, Religion, and Resources in the late-colonial era." Schauer's paper was titled "The Whiteness of Black Lechwe: Race and Gender in Colonial Conservation Work and Writing in Northern…