News: Department of History
![An illustration of a newspaper cover featuring the Hiroshima bombing](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/DoomTownsMain_0.jpg?itok=SrBRwQHc)
UNLV professor Andy Kirk's "Doom Towns" takes a ground-level view of ground zero, and presents it in the form of graphic novel about Las Vegas' position in the atomic firmament.
![Alice Joyce](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/AliceJoyce.jpg?itok=AGUScC-d)
Five flapper myths to bust your notion of Roaring Twenties fashion as the UNLV Public History Project prepares to invade the Mob Museum.
![Nevada](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/nevada_0.jpg?itok=Cn7Iq5v_)
Professor Michael Green offers a history lesson in how to say the state's name.
![Sarah Winnemucca and Rutherford B. Hayes](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/Winnemucca_Hayes.jpg?itok=KVW546hE)
Historian William Bauer chronicles the expeditions of American Indian leaders to Washington D.C. in a free public talk Oct. 5.
![John F. Kennedy](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/JFKWHP-KN-C23216.jpg?itok=9XWMMsmL)
History professor Deirdre Clemente chronicles the increasingly casual nature of presidential fashion.
![Constitution](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/rendered.jpg?itok=RwjQkgx5)
Boyd School of Law professors discuss presidential powers and UNLV's upcoming Constitution Day event.
![Homecoming royalty from 1976](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/studentfashion_1976_0.jpg?itok=y6qVBFJb)
UNLV history professor Deirdre Clemente's newest book highlights a convergence of fashion and consumerism on college campuses.
![students talk in class](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/nc_D69630_08.jpg?itok=-jqznAlf)
As the campus gears up to host the final presidential debate, UNLV professors are making direct connections between their course materials and this year's ground-breaking election season.
![American flag with a shadow of a person](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/Warmuptheband_0.jpg?itok=Dh8LGyaP)
Nine free public lectures are planned on campus to evoke conversation and facilitate understanding about the election process and related issues.
![Monica Moradkhan and Daniel Waqar](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/speakers.jpg?itok=Iprp8A_c)
Daniel Waqar and Monica Moradkhan were selected as this commencement's featured speakers. Here's what they hope all Rebels will take away from their UNLV experiences.
![Ashley Weckesser](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/nc_D70700_09.jpg?itok=dK6jQOt3)
Ask this Grad College staff member to call out a military cadence and you might be surprised at the results.
![Mary-Ann Winkelmes](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/nc_D69845_05.jpg?itok=LhAfJZB7)
UNLV leads the country with a program that proves even small changes to assignments can yield big results in classroom success — especially among first-generation students.