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

Micca House in Paradise Valley, Nevada
Arts and Culture |

Historic preservation group calls for action to sustain survival of 12 Silver State treasures.

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Campus News |

A monthly roundup of the top news stories at UNLV, featuring the presidential election, gaming partnerships, and much more.

Michael Green
Business and Community |

Has candidate mudslinging and voter vitriol always been this unpleasant? UNLV history expert Michael Green explains the evolution of political decorum in America.

Undergrad researcher Benjamin Sabir helps H. Jeremy Cho examine an atmospheric water harvesting device. (Jeff Scheid/UNLV)
Campus News |

A monthly roundup of the top news stories featuring UNLV staff and students.

Students pass by Lied Library as they walk campus on the first day of Fall 2024 semester classes
Campus News |

A collection of news highlights featuring students and faculty.

desert land with cityscape in distance
Business and Community |

Here's the history behind the 2,000+ acres slated to substantially expand UNLV's footprint in the valley.

History In The News

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

“The Holocaust: Reconstructing Shattered Humanity” is now on display at the Governor’s office located off Bermuda Road and Harrah’s Court, south of Harry Reid International Airport. Heidi Straus is the president of the Nevada Center for Humanity and curator of all the artifacts. She’s teamed up with UNLV grad students to display the collection. Straus has spent years gathering never before seen items.

KSNV-TV: News 3

A new exhibit on the Holocaust has opened at the Nevada governor's office in Las Vegas. Gov. Joe Lombardo's office, the Nevada Center for Humanity, and the UNLV Reid Public History Institute hosted an open house Tuesday for the exhibit, titled "The Holocaust: Reconstructing Shattered Humanity."

Las Vegas Review Journal

It’s hard to imagine Las Vegas casino behemoth MGM Resorts International associated with failure. But the company’s 33-acre MGM Grand Adventures theme park, which first opened Dec. 18, 1993, and closed less than seven years later, has to qualify as one of the city’s historic flops.

Las Vegas Review Journal

It’s hard to imagine Las Vegas casino behemoth MGM Resorts International associated with failure. But the company’s 33-acre MGM Grand Adventures theme park, which first opened Dec. 18, 1993, and closed less than seven years later, has to qualify as one of the city’s historic flops.

Las Vegas Sun

Nevada’s landscapes are etched with stories, from sprawling mountains to stretches of arid desert, all bearing traces of a past too often forgotten in today’s rush to the future.

Huffington Post

Did recent beauty and style trends that evoke “old money,” the pastoral past and the “clean girl” aesthetic predict Donald Trump’s reelection? Quite possibly, at least if you ask the internet’s fashion girlies.

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Recent History Accomplishments

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…
John Curry (History) attended the College Board Advanced Placement World History: Modern Examination Development Committee meeting, held in Reston, Virginia, as the Higher Education Co-Chair representative. The meeting spent four days designing and finalizing the questions for several different versions of next year's Advanced Placement exams for…
David Tanenhaus (Law; History) delivered the Brieland Lecture on "In the Meantime, the Past and Future of Juvenile Justice." as the 17th Brieland Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois School of Social Work.
Michael J. Alarid (History) was interviewed for the New Books Network podcast by host Miranda Melcher of City, University of London. The interview explores the origins, methods, and themes of his book, Hispano Bastion: New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837-1860 (University of New Mexico Press, 2022).
John Curry (History) was published in a Book Forum in the online journal Maydan, a publication of the Abu Sulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University. The forum discussed the recent publication of Hayrettin Yücesoy's "Disenchanting the Caliphate: The Secular Discipline of Power in Abbasid…