Columnist
Hal Rothman
Hal Rothman has been called "the historian of things that haven't happened yet." He's not sure if that's a compliment.
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Hal K. Rothman is Professor and Barrick Distinguished Scholar at the Department of History at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. Considered the one of the nation’s leading expert on tourism, travel, and post-industrial economies, he is the award-winning author of countless books, including the widely acclaimed Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the 21st Century (2002), Devil’s Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth Century American West, (1998 ), Saving the Planet: The American Response to the Environment in the Twentieth Century (2000), which received the 1999 Western Writers of America Spur Award for Contemporary Nonfiction, and many others. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, the Bridge News Service, the “Writers on the Range" series of the High Country News, and Urban Ecology, and has frequently been quoted or appeared in the national media. He was featured in George Will’s nationally syndicated column, on NewsNight with Aaron Brown, in an interview with Jeff Greenfield, and appeared four times on World News Tonight with Peter Jennings in 2004. He has been quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, US News and World Report, USA Today, the Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times, and has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning, CBS Evening News, ABC 2000, NBC’s Dateline, ABC’s Primetime, CNN, and CNN International. He has narrated programs on the Travel News Network, been a featured guest on NPR’s The Savvy Traveler, and hosts a radio program, Our Metropolis, on KUNV radio in Las Vegas. In 2004, he was elected to the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. Much to his surprise, Slate Magazine called him “the foremost guru of the new Las Vegas" and named an award after him.
