Michael Green

Michael Green, Ph.D., is an associate professor in UNLV’s Department of History. He holds bachelors and master’s degrees from UNLV and obtained his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. Green is the author of several books about the history of Las Vegas and Nevada as well as broader topics in American history. His books on the Civil War era include Freedom, Union, and Power: Lincoln and His Party during the Civil War, Lincoln and the Election of 1860, and Lincoln and Native Americans. His works on Nevada include Las Vegas: A Centennial History with Eugene Moehring; Nevada: A History of the Silver State; and the oral history, A Liberal Conscience: Ralph Denton, Nevadan. He is writing both a history of the Great Basin in the twentieth century and a history of organized crime in twentieth-century America. Green is also active in writing and speaking in the community. For Nevada Humanities and KNPR, he writes “Nevada Yesterdays,” which is narrated by another board member, Senator Richard Bryan.