history

Writers’ Wednesday
April 12 , 2023
5:00 – 5:30 pm – Book signing and wine/cheese Reception
5:30 – 6:30 pm – Lecture

This month’s book is called “Goldfield Century: Nevada Boomtown” with author Stephen H. Provost who will discuss his book. Dragon Crown Books/Century Cities Publishing.

Summary of Talk
You may not have heard of it, but for a brief […]

Writers’ Wednesday
Peter Mires
Wicked Virginia City

March 8, 2023
5:00 – 5:30 pm – Book signing and wine/cheese Reception
5:30 – 6:30 pm – Lecture

This month’s book is called “Wicked Virginia City” with author Peter Mires who explores the seamy side of this quintessential mining boomtown in his latest book. He will be signing copies of his book […]

Writers’ Wednesday
November 8, 2023
5:00 – 5:30 pm – Book signing and wine/cheese Reception
5:30 – 6:30 pm – Lecture
Outback Nevada Book
This month’s book is called “Outback Nevada: Real Stories from the Silver State,” published by the University of Nevada Press.”  You will meet with author John Glionna, and photographer Randi Lynn Beach who will talk […]

Nevada History Lecture

Nevada Day special evening program

October 25, 2023
5:00 – 5:30 pm – Wine/cheese Reception
5:30 – 6:30 pm – Nevada History Lecture

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

The Depot of Carcasses:  Animals, Overlanders, and the Forty Mile Desert

Between the 1840s and 1860s, approximately 300,000 people crossed the […]

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 […]