| Hal Rothman is Professor History and
Chair of the Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
His areas of study include environmental history, western tourism,
and Las Vegas.He has written articles for a wide range of historical
journals and has authored many books.
His most recent books include The Grit Beneath the Glitter:
Tales from the Real Las Vegas, Devil's Bargains: Tourism
in the Twentieth-Century American West, and The Greening
of a Nation? Environmentalism in the U.S. Since 1945.
The American Heritage Center selected Dr. Rothman to be its 2004
Bernard L. Majewski Fellow. The Majewski Fellowship honors the late
petroleum industry pioneer Bernard L. Majewski. It is funded by
a generous endowment given to the AHC by the late Thelma Majewski. |
"National Parks, Extractive Industries,
and the Birth of the New West"
Hal Rothman