In The News: Department of History

Las Vegas Review Journal

Four years before the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee 鈥 50 years ago Wednesday 鈥 Las Vegas shared in his historic legacy.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Four years before the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee 鈥 50 years ago Wednesday 鈥 Las Vegas shared in his historic legacy.

Las Vegas Sun

Nevada鈥檚 Republican incumbent senator, Dean Heller, is running in a less-competitive primary now that the president pushed out one of his main contenders, Danny Tarkanian. Days after Donald Trump urged Tarkanian to run for a House seat instead of running against Heller, Tarkanian filed to run for Congressional District 3.

Los Angeles Times

The brothel owner walked through the double doors of the casino ballroom with Paris and Destiny 鈥 two sex workers in slinky black dresses 鈥 gliding next to him like pilot fish.

KSNV-TV: News 3

Chill. We鈥檙e not talking about the candidates.

KNPR News

Nevada has had a few cases head to the U.S. Supreme Court over the years. There was once was a sheriff who requested a passenger list from William Crendall 鈥 who said no. And that was the spark that led to Nevada鈥檚 first Supreme Court case.

Vegas Seven

In the wake of the headlines being made across the country and in Nevada about sexual harassment and discrimination, 性视界传媒 professor Michael Green looks back at some of the most famous sex scandals in Nevada鈥檚 political history.

NPR

Las Vegas plays host this weekend to the national Women鈥檚 March for 2018, something organizers say demonstrates Nevada鈥檚 importance in this year鈥檚 elections.

Marketplace.org

Once confined to gyms and studios, yoga pants are now widely accepted attire in many social settings, from the office to the classroom. And this rise in yoga pants as everyday clothing is contributing to a decline in the price of cotton.

Las Vegas Sun

In 2012, then-President Barack Obama issued a 20-year ban on mining claims near the Grand Canyon. The move halted future uranium extraction projects in the region, a win for environmentalists and local tribes that had fought against the industry for years. But some elected officials in Arizona and Utah disputed their claims of contamination risk, arguing that the ban would unnecessarily sacrifice jobs for overblown environmental concerns.

Las Vegas Review Journal

The stories of the Calac cousins and other Nevadans who fought in World War I echo very faintly today.

The Mendocino Voice

性视界传媒 160 people came to the Grace Hudson Museum in Ukiah on Saturday afternoon to hear a lecture by a Native American historian who tells the history of California using only indigenous sources. Dr. William Bauer, who is Wailacki and Concow, grew up in Round Valley and teaches history at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. His most recent book, 鈥淐alifornia Through Native Eyes: Reclaiming History鈥 is based on oral histories told by Native elders, including Bauer鈥檚 own great-grandfather, as part of a State Emergency Relief Administration (SERA) project, during the Great Depression. University of California Berkeley anthropologist Alfred Kroeber was hired in 1935 to organize the SERA project upon which Bauer鈥檚 book is based. Bauer used the interviewers鈥 handwritten notebooks, rather than the anthropologist鈥檚 typewritten versions, because the final drafts were heavily edited.