In The News: University Libraries
You don’t have to be a first responder to participate in UNLV Libraries’ “Remembering 1 October” oral history project, although it’s fine if you are. “We want to show how Las Vegas [rallied] together to support each other,” says Claytee D. White, director of UNLV’s Oral History Research Center.
Charlotte Hill was so active in so many causes, so giving to so many organizations — maintaining a high energy level no matter how thin she spread herself — that even her closest friends could not understand how she was able to do all that she accomplished.
The largest statewide preservation group in Nevada is out with its annual list of 11 Most Endangered Places. These are sites with significant historical value that might just get the wrecking ball or otherwise disappear unless something is done.
Four years before the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee — 50 years ago Wednesday — Las Vegas shared in his historic legacy.
Four years before the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee — 50 years ago Wednesday — Las Vegas shared in his historic legacy.
In early 1960, Dr. James McMillan penned a letter to then-Las Vegas Mayor Oran Gragson demanding that the city integrate.
The historic African-American neighborhood in Las Vegas known as the Westside sits at a crossroads — literally and figuratively.
No city matches Las Vegas when it comes to fantasy architecture on a large scale. Today's Strip is home to a volcano, a pyramid, the Arc de Triomphe, a pirate bay and more.
No city matches Las Vegas when it comes to fantasy architecture on a large scale. Today's Strip is home to a volcano, a pyramid, the Arc de Triomphe, a pirate bay and more.
UNLV hosted an Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon on Wednesday as part of an international movement that works to increase representation of women and the arts (artandfeminism.org).
The roots of the Las Vegas Westside — the historically black neighborhood near downtown — predate the city’s 1905 founding.
A swimming pool fenced against an expanse of empty desert; an aerial view of seemingly infinite suburbia; a flooded wash; black ribbons of highway on-ramps. This is the Las Vegas—both mundane and exquisite, yet always monumental in its mastery of hostile land—local photographer Aaron Mayes is recording for posterity.
