LibGuides: HIST 302 (Figanbaum) Public History: Communities and Groups

One City, Many Faces

Documenting the African American Experience in Las Vegas
KNPR: The Las Vegas I Remember
Oral histories
Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada
Margaret Wheat oral history collection, UNR
Oral histories from Paiute and Shoshone people in Nevada
Nevada Test Site Oral History Project
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The Nevada Test Site Oral History Project at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas is a comprehensive program dedicated to documenting, preserving and disseminating the remembered past of persons affiliated with and affected by the Nevada Test Site during the era of Cold War nuclear testing.
Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project
UNR: University of Nevada Oral History Archive
Veterans Oral History Project
Henderson Libraries staff filmed and interviewed local military veterans about their experiences in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Their stories can be heard and read here. All of the filmed interviews in this collection are accompanied by fully searchable transcripts.
West Las Vegas Teen Oral History Project « The Librarian's Brain
The West Las Vegas Teen Oral History Project is an intergenerational project, enabling teens to become historians of cultural and heritage experiences in their African American Community.
WLV Teen Oral Histories

Social Explorer
Good for: Accessing current and historical U.S. census data and demographic information.
Contains: Census data and demographic information visualized on a map.

The easy-to-use web interface lets users create maps and reports to better illustrate, analyze and understand demography and social change. In addition to being a comprehensive data resource, Social Explorer also offers features and tools to meet the needs of both demography experts and novices. It creates reports at all geographic levels including the state, county, census tract, block group, zip code and census place. Included are over 18,000 maps, hundreds of profile reports, 40 billion data elements, 335,000 variables and 220 years of data.

Nevada Census Database
Find Nevada residents recorded in the U.S. Census for the years 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, and 1920.
1930 census
1940 census - National Archives