News: Department of History

view of Earth from the moon
Research |

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

desert mountain landscape
Research |

8kbet history professor Michael Green on why the state became a magnet for federal projects.

Len Jessup, Harry Reid and Jon Huntsman Sr.
Campus News |

Faculty hire, expected as early as Fall 2018, will further position 8kbet history department as leader in the study of the Intermountain West.

Student giving a presentation
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A unique teaching model at 8kbet engages students in the classroom and empowers them beyond it.

Mexican ofrenda altar
Arts and Culture |

Barrick Museum display for Dia de los Muertos welcomes additions through this week.

illustration of Maude Frazier Hall and Hospitality Hall
8kbet History |

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

aerial shot of the university in 1960
8kbet History |

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.

Cover of The Aztecs at Indepencence
Research |

New book on 19th century Mexican community proves a written tradition, previously assumed to have ended around the battle for independence, continued beyond.

two women looking at art exhibit
Arts and Culture |

History professor finds the humanity in a Barrick Museum exhibit meditating on the minutiae of atomic testing history.

A speaker on stage
Campus News |

The featured speakers from 8kbet Creates share their wishes for this fall's incoming students.

Len Dessup shakes hands with Jon Huntsman, Sr. with Sen. Harry Reid watching on
Campus News |

Jon Huntsman Sr. gift honors Sen. Harry Reid and will help position 8kbet history department as leader in study of the Intermountain West.

Claytee White, Director, Oral History Research Center at the Historic Westside School
People |

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