6,585 articles and press references, with original sources and access notes.
Open the papers. Turn back the years.
Articles, historical notes and original archival records. Choose any date to open the record.
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The architecture, the entertainers, the workers and the changing resort.
Kirk Kerkorian’s response, insurance bought after the disaster and the courtroom built for an extraordinary case. Follow the documents and read the archived reporting.
Kirk Kerkorian, Jay Sarno, Howard Hughes and Sheldon Adelson changed the possibilities of a Las Vegas resort. Follow their stories, then explore the financiers, family businesses, public leaders and later generations behind the city’s growth.
The International. The MGM Grands. A city built bigger.
THE ART OF SPECTACLECaesars Palace, Circus Circus and the resort as another world.
OWNERSHIP & POWERThe Desert Inn years and a new concentration of casino ownership.
CONVENTIONS & AMBITIONCOMDEX. Sands Expo. The Venetian and a new resort business.
Resorts and neighborhoods. Atomic tests and aviation. Newspapers, water, workers and culture. Follow the many stories that made Las Vegas.
Las Vegas has never been short on legends. The documents tell their own story.
Argent takes its name from the company that owned the Stardust and other Las Vegas casinos during the 1970s. This is an independent homage to the city’s past: its ambition, its entertainers, its workers, and the money and power behind the neon.
Our starting point is the reporting of the Las Vegas Sun and the Las Vegas Review-Journal, supported by museum research, independent historians and original archival collections. An article published at the time and a history written decades later are different kinds of evidence. We label them accordingly.
Read the history of the original Argent CorporationOriginal reporting belongs to its publishers. Argent pairs historical notes and newspaper reporting with photographs, correspondence, menus and city records. Every entry links to its source; some headlines are shortened. The calendar distinguishes event, publication and record dates. Approximate dates appear only in the timeline.
Explore local reporting, the gaming trade, museums, public records, declassified documents and books.
The Review-Journal’s archive combines historical page images and later text reporting, with the Las Vegas Age, Sun and other local titles among its collections.
Search and subscription options belong to NewsBank. A subscription requirement does not make an article irrelevant or a link broken.
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Historical reporting and retrospectives from the Sun. ARGENT retains dated article links even when automated reading is restricted.
The publisher controls access. Follow the original report or use its exact headline to search the archive.
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Dated gaming reports, casino finance, policy and executive interviews. Publisher-hosted historical reports are identified separately from subscription-only editions.
Public pages and selected historical PDFs are linked directly. Subscriber editions may require access; private email copies and tracking links are not republished.
Research on gaming equipment, operating markets and related businesses. Report period and publication date are distinct; research about other jurisdictions is included only when it explains Las Vegas history.
Publisher research index. Individual reports may be subscription products.
Casino operations, regulation, finance, sports betting and industry commentary. ARGENT indexes a dated selection of Nevada and Las Vegas reporting across 2016–2025.
Publisher article metadata is identified separately from full-text review. Commentary is labeled.
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Trade reporting and analysis on casino operators, technology, resort development and the convention business, including older Las Vegas coverage.
Selected articles link directly to their publisher pages and preserve their publication dates.
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UNLV’s guide connects Nevada newspaper holdings with the Nevada Newspaper Index and research using its microfilm collection.
Some newspaper research requires library equipment or an in-person visit; a citation is a finding aid, not a digitized article.
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Explore early Las Vegas through UNLV’s catalog for the Las Vegas Age, including issue-level newspaper records.
Issue scans are original records. They are not counted as individual articles in ARGENT.
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A chronological directory of governors and their messages to the legislature. ARGENT indexes 88 linked historical addresses as original documents.
Legislative library PDFs. Proposals and claims in a speech are not evidence that a policy was carried out.
Read the federal Senate’s historical service list and Nevada’s current state Senate roster directly in ARGENT, with official source links.
Public institutional reference, with links to individual congressional biographies.
UNLV’s Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project connects family biographies with interviews, businesses and civic institutions. Individual ARGENT profiles link to the relevant records.
Archival biographies and oral histories; access and reproduction rights vary by item.
An industry interview with Ryan Doherty on Commonwealth, new venues and operating through the pandemic. A complement to casino-centered reporting.
Published trade interview, with the operator’s perspective clearly identified.
Museum exhibits and collection information on nuclear testing and its cultural legacy.
Exhibits and collection overview online. An item-level public digital catalog was not located in this research.
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Historical documents and a route into Department of Energy OpenNet records on testing, fallout and related research.
Public reading-room guidance and links to document searches.
The official chronological reference for U.S. nuclear tests. Use the location and date notes when separating Nevada events from other test sites.
Government reference PDF. Linked as a complete source, not split into hundreds of repetitive stories.
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National Security Archive documents and commentary on secret aircraft, stealth research and the Nevada test facility.
Public briefing book with links to declassified documents.
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An institutional history of early U-2 and OXCART testing at Groom Lake. Compare it with declassified records and participant recollections.
Public agency retrospective.
A starting point for the museum’s library, manuscript and archival collections on the city and region.
Collection guidance online; research visits require arrangements with the museum.
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Regional history, historic buildings and everyday life in Las Vegas, Boulder City and Henderson.
Museum and exhibit information online; not a bulk digital archive.
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A specialist starting point for Southern Nevada aviation history and artifacts.
Public museum information and research contact details.
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Federal record-group guidance, including the Nevada Operations Office and photographic collections.
A finding guide. A listed collection is not necessarily digitized or immediately downloadable.
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Catalog objects, oral histories, maps, photographs, business records and original documents. This draft adds links from its public catalog.
Digital material and collection guides; rights and access vary by item.
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UNLV’s newspaper directory includes the Las Vegas Age and other Nevada titles.
Issue indexes and links to digitized newspapers. A complete issue is different from a selected article.
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The Library of Congress historic-newspaper collection provides another route into Nevada reporting.
Public newspaper scans, catalog records and search tools.
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The city’s timeline connects townsite development, community institutions and civil-rights history.
Public historical timeline, with photographs and source acknowledgments.
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Sally Denton and Roger Morris examine Las Vegas and national power across 1947–2000. Their investigative interpretation is a guide to further questions and source checking, rather than a substitute for the underlying record.
Publisher overview and author interview. The complete book has not been reproduced or treated as fully reviewed here.
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Archive edition · Source dates appear on every story.