During this episode of No Laughing Matter with Cuba Pete, Joe will discuss this with Michael Green, Associate Professor of History at UNLV, the rich history of the silver state and Las Vegas. Key to the discussion will be exploring what future Roseman University College of Medicine students should know about the history of Nevada and how this will impact how they will care for Nevadans.
About our guest ... Dr. Michael Green is an associate professor at UNLV and
teaches history courses on nineteenth-century America and on Nevada and Las
Vegas, for the history department and the Honors College. He earned his B.A.
and M.A. at UNLV and his Ph.D. at Columbia University.
He has written and published a couple books on the Civil War era. Dr. Green is
now working on writing a history of the Great Basin in the twentieth century for
the University of Arizona Press and a history of organized crime in the twentieth
century for Rowman & Littlefield. He also is editing A Companion to Abraham
Lincoln as part of the Wiley-Blackwell series of historiography volumes.
He edits the Wilbur S. Shepperson Series on Nevada History for the University of
Nevada Press and is a member of the editorial board for the press. He is a
member of the board of directors for The Mob Museum. He is the director of
Preserve Nevada and serves as executive director of the Pacific Coast Branch of
the American Historical Association.
Green is also active in writing and speaking in the community. He writes
"Nevada Yesterdays" for Nevada Humanities and KNPR, and a column for the
quarterly R-J Sunday magazine.