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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A collection of colorful headlines featuring 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ staff and students.

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The rosiest headlines and highlights featuring the students and faculty of 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ.

spring flowers
Campus News |

The rosiest headlines and highlights featuring the students and faculty of 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ.

A 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ student studies with the Strip in the distance.
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Headlines and highlights featuring the students and faculty of 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ.

clothing and other items from Holocaust exhibit
Campus News |

51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ’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 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ pool. Members of the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Swim Team dive underneath the water.
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51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ student and 'Survivor' contestant David Jelinsky returns to campus with lessons learned from his reality show appearance.

History In The News

Casino.org

A surprising number of alternative facts about the world’s gambling capital continue to resonate across pop culture, with little relevance to reality. The Hoover Dam holds one of the biggest.

Las Vegas Review Journal

In the decade-and-a-half following the 2008 economic collapse, the north end of the Strip — loosely defined as the 1.3-mile section between Encore and The Strat — has benefited from billions of dollars of capital investment, giving casino operators and other stakeholders a renewed sense of purpose. But the corridor remains a work in progress, and the question once again being asked is: Can the North Strip finally deliver on its unrealized potential?

Las Vegas Review Journal

In the decade-and-a-half following the 2008 economic collapse, the north end of the Strip — loosely defined as the 1.3-mile section between Encore and The Strat — has benefited from billions of dollars of capital investment, giving casino operators and other stakeholders a renewed sense of purpose. But the corridor remains a work in progress, and the question once again being asked is: Can the North Strip finally deliver on its unrealized potential?

Harper's Bazaar

The traffic light turns green on a crowded jag of downtown Manhattan. Polished women shake their choppy, chopped hair in the wind, scanning news of soaring stocks, then crashing stocks, then a wild party their friends tried to crash. Stores show drop-waist dresses and long beaded cardigans in one window, piles of crisp white shirts and boater shoes in another.

Mother Jones

As if Elon Musk didn’t already have enough advantages, between his billions and his leverage over President Donald Trump, he appears to have another ace up his sleeve: the US Marshals Service.

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."

History Experts

A historian and curator of 20th century American culture, specializing in clothing, political fashion, and the use of fashion in the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald. 
An expert in Nevada, Civil War, and gaming history.
An expert on Russia, religion, and U.S. and international history.
A historian of European culture from the age of Enlightenment through the present day.
Finding the intersection of the end of British colonial rule in African and how it affected wildlife conservation.
Kirk is an expert who studies the intersections of cultural and environmental history in the modern U.S. with a special interest in the American West.

Recent History Accomplishments

Michelle Tusan (History) presented on the British History Today plenary panel at Queen Mary University in London.
Jeff Schauer (History) published "Empires and Environment: Africa's Colonial Wildlife Conservation Origins," an essay accompanying a Gale collection of primary sources, Environmental History: Colonial Policy and Global Development, 1896-1993. 
Ph.D. candidate Analiesa (Annie) Delgado (History) won the Huggins-Quarles Award from the Organization of American Historians. The Huggins-Quarles Award supports graduate students to travel to archives for the completion of the Ph.D. dissertation. Delgado will use the award to conduct research at the National Archives for her dissertation about…
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…