America's Great Gamble

NOTE: This website was made for a NHPRC grant project in 2017 and is no longer maintained. If you have questions or problems accessing links, please contact speccoll.techserv@unlv.edu.

America’s Great Gamble: A Project to Promote the Discovery of Sources About the Expansion of Legalized Gambling Across the United States is a National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) grant-funded project to make four archival collections more discoverable, understandable, and usable at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas University Libraries Special Collections & Archives. The processing team arranged and described four collections that document the gaming industry’s rapid growth and expansion in the US, primarily from 1970 to 2010: Katherine A. Spilde Papers on Native American Gaming (MS-00092), Eugene Martin Christiansen Papers (MS-00561), Gary W. Royer Collection on Gaming (MS-00658), and Harrah's Entertainment Corporate Archives (MS-00460). This site contains UNLV Libraries documentation about this NHPRC grant-funded project, including the grant proposal and reports, links to the finding aids and MARC catalog records, and links to publicity and scholarship related to the project.