Student projects portal

This site showcases the ways in which University of Nevada, Reno students use the department’s collections for research and learning. Special Collections and University Archives houses approximately 5 million individual primary source items in over 3,500 archival collections. Our Book Arts collection has more than 2,500 volumes and includes authors from around the world, and we also have rare books that are as much as six hundred years old. All of these resources are rich source materials for deep research and engaged learning. Through projects such as the ones on this portal, Special Collections and University Archives serves as a laboratory and exploration space.

Senator Harry Reid Graduate Fellowship

The Senator Harry Reid Doctoral Fellowship is a unique public history opportunity for a student of western American or Environmental history to work closely with Senator Reid’s personal papers while pursuing doctoral studies in the Department of History at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Learn more about the Fellowship

Harry Reid Fellow blog

Augustus Hawkins, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Pat Brown sit close to one another mid-conversation.

The Business of Civil Rights: The Kennedy-Hawkins Bill

An exploration of Senator Reid’s connection to the Kennedy-Hawkins Bill written by one of the Senator Harry Reid Doctoral Fellows

Senator Harry Reid pictured speaking during a legislative call

Nevada’s Longest Serving Senator: Harry Reid’s Lasting Legacy (Part II)

Part II of the obituary for Harry Mason Reid, written by the University of Nevada, Reno's Senator Harry Reid Doctoral Fellow

Portrait of Senator Harry Mason Reid

The Man from Searchlight: A remembrance of Harry Mason Reid (Part I)

Obituary for Harry Mason Reid, written by the Senator Harry Reid Doctoral Fellow

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Darla and Jonathan Garey-Sage Internship

A practical archives work experience for undergraduates at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Learn more about the internship
The foyer of the Special Collections and University Archives department with glass and wooden displays showing archival items

Pandemic Photography project

Students in Professor Sarah Keyes’ Nevada History course (HIST 217) use historic campus photographs in the department’s collections to reflect on how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed campus life.

Two students shit close together talking in front of Manzanita Hall and Manzanita Lake, 2000

The Space Between Us

Safety Precautions of a New Norm

Black and white photograph of a building with written text below that reads "Lincoln Hall"

Lincoln Hall

Two World Wars, Two Global Pandemics, 30 Presidential Elections, and much more.

Black and white photograph of a man wearing sunglasses and laying on top of a white car, 1979

The Difference Between Past and Present: Pandemic Edition

The truth behind how society perceives the world brought to you by a recreated image

View more posts about the Pandemic Photography Project
RUIOH project interviewers

The Realities of Undocumented Immigrants Oral History (RUIOH) project

The Realities of Undocumented Immigrants Oral History (RUIOH) Project collects stories to educate elected officials, policymakers, and other interested parties about the realities and humanity of undocumented immigrants in Nevada.

Learn More about the RUIOH Project

Student Projects Portal contributors

Department of History

Sarah Keyes, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
sarahkeyes@unr.edu

Special Collections and University Archives

Kimberly Anderson, Ph.D.
Director, Special Collections
kda@unr.edu