In the 1950’s and 60s, an African-American woman from Texas named Genevieve Harrison ran a little guest house on the Westside of Las Vegas.

One by one, the three 2015 miss debutantes twirled past the tables filled with wide-eyed junior high school girls. The debs, in their ruffled ball gowns with lace bodices and sateen-finished full skirts, full-length gloves and tiaras, imparted a regal grace to the humble Westside church banquet hall.

Every February, public schools turn their focus to the story of African Americans, under the banner of Black History Month. Mostly focusing on slavery and civil rights, students learn of the struggles and triumphs that shape the black experience. But as the tradition has carried on, it has also picked up detractors, who view it as outdated, even condescending.

Bucket lists. Thanks to a 2007 film starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, it's become our go-to term in describing our own lists of things that we want to do or experience while we still can.

The National Archives has issued a $129,600 grant from its National Historical Publications and Records Commission to UNLV's University Libraries Special Collections.

The end of an entertainment era is drawing near. The longest running show on The Las Vegas Strip is set to go dark for good in February.

It’s that time of year again. It’s the time when students are feeling the stress ahead of holiday break. It’s time for finals at UNLV.

Nevada became a state on October 31, 1864, but Clark County wasn't part of it for another three years. Do some people in the north still regret that inclusion?

The Plaza plans to open a special gallery next week filled with various sports-related items that previously decorated the shuttered Las Vegas Club.

Within the sprawling contemporary Las Vegas landscape linger millions of personal stories that are lost to history or buried in the larger picture. Delving into the files (digital and physical) at UNLV’s Special Collections reveals the layers, the minutiae behind the names and places that weave together a larger narrative.

It probably never seemed possible that bustling and historic 19th-century Paris would collide with a small gambling city in the American Southwest. But in 1959, nine decades after the still-running Folies-Bergère opened in France’s capital, Les Folies Bergere opened at Las Vegas’ Tropicana, following the arrival of Lido de Paris a year earlier at the Stardust, further cementing the French-inspired showgirl into a Vegas icon.

Study hard. Plan your time. Meet people.

All are nuggets of advice incoming college freshmen often hear. And while they're great as far as they go, they may not cover the breadth of the college experience for new students.