history

Writers’ Wednesday
October 11, 2023
5:00 – 5:30 pm – Book signing and wine/cheese Reception
5:30 – 6:30 pm – Lecture

This month’s book is called “Frontier Fake News: Nevada’s Sagebrush Humorists and Hoaxsters” published by the University of Nevada Press with historian and author, Richard Moreno who will discuss his book.

Summary of Talk

Frontier […]

September 15, 2023
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
New Docent Orientation Session

Are you interested in learning how to become a volunteer at the Nevada Historical Society? Do you have some free time? Do you love sharing stories? We are looking for educational docents to help lead gallery tours for 4th graders, organizations and adults. What a […]

Writers’ Wednesday
September 13, 2023
5:00 – 5:30 pm – Book signing and wine/cheese Reception
5:30 – 6:30 pm – Lecture

This month’s talk with feature two books “The Old Genoa Cemetery, Walking Tour, Volume 4” and “King of the Comstock South” with author Karen Dustman who will discuss her newest books.

Summary of Talk

Bullets, Bandits, and Sheer Bravado: […]

High Noon: Shootout with Neal Cobb
 

Sparks Then and Now Revisited
Scott Carey
May 18, 2023 – Noon

Virtual Program. Register: https://events.washoecountylibrary.us/event/10005191

Nevada Historical Society presents High Noon with Neal Cobb, a wonderful history series that delves into fascinating Nevada topics with local experts. Neal Cobb is a passionate historian and honorary curator for the Nevada Historical Society. He loves all […]

Writers’ Wednesday
May 10, 2023
5:00 – 5:30 pm – Book signing and wine/cheese Reception
5:30 – 6:30 pm – Lecture

This month’s book is called “Imposing Order without Law” with author Michael J. Makley who will discuss his latest book from the University of Nevada Press.
Imposing Order without Law book
Summary of Talk

In the 1850s, early Euro-American settlers […]

High Noon: Shootout with Neal Cobb
Virginia City, the Great Fire, October 26, 1875
Joe Curtis, Guest Speaker
April 20, 2023 – Noon

Virtual Program. Register: https://events.washoecountylibrary.us/event/10005188

Nevada Historical Society presents High Noon with Neal Cobb, a wonderful history series that delves into fascinating Nevada topics with local experts. Neal Cobb is a passionate historian and honorary curator for the […]

American Gaming Archives – Fireside Chat
The Bank Club: Square Dealing or Capitol Crime

April 15, 2023 (Tax Day)
1:00 – 2:30pm

Michael Fischer, speaker and Howard Herz, moderator.

Join us for our first AGA Fireside Chat for 2023 with Michael Fischer and Howard W. Herz, American Gaming Archives (AGA) Curator for the Nevada Historical Society.

The talk will focus […]

Nevada History Lecture
March 25, 2023 from 1-2:30pm

Diana L. Ahmad, Ph.D.
Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Prostitution in Nevada
Early Virginia City scene
Prostitution is as much a part of the history of the American West as cowboys, miners, and buffalo. Thousands of women from three continents worked the tenderloin areas of the mining […]

High Noon
Debbie Hinman, The University Gateway Houses: A History and Update on the Relocated Survivors.
Virtual Program. Register: https://events.washoecountylibrary.us/event/10005170

Nevada Historical Society presents High Noon with Neal Cobb, a wonderful history series that delves into fascinating Nevada topics with local experts. Neal Cobb is a passionate historian and honorary curator for the Nevada Historical Society. He loves all […]

Happy Fall everyone. Here is the latest e-newsletter from the Society.

We hope you enjoy our new newsletter format as part of our campaign to provide more information about the happenings at NHS!

NHS E-newsletter Fall […]