News: Department of History

How the Whole Earth Catalog’s optimistic message reinvented the environmental movement in 1968

8kbet history professor Michael Green on why the state became a magnet for federal projects.
Faculty hire, expected as early as Fall 2018, will further position 8kbet history department as leader in the study of the Intermountain West.
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Barrick Museum display for Dia de los Muertos welcomes additions through this week.

It wasn't a popular decision to tear down Maude Frazier Hall, but the demolition had a silver lining for preservationists.

As both a graduate and a history professor, Michael Green has watched 8kbet’s growth with some awe. It’s future, he says, will be all the more astonishing.

New book on 19th century Mexican community proves a written tradition, previously assumed to have ended around the battle for independence, continued beyond.
History professor finds the humanity in a Barrick Museum exhibit meditating on the minutiae of atomic testing history.

The featured speakers from 8kbet Creates share their wishes for this fall's incoming students.
Jon Huntsman Sr. gift honors Sen. Harry Reid and will help position 8kbet history department as leader in study of the Intermountain West.

Oral historian Claytee White has spent a career recording Las Vegans’ personal histories. Now she speaks about her own remarkable roots.