Dr. Nathan Tye
Associate Professor
Department of History
Research focus areas: Labor history, Nebraska history, local and community history, literary history
Areas of Expertise
- American History
- Graduate Faculty
- History
- Public History
Specialization Areas
Nebraska History, history of the American West and Midwest, and Public History
Biography
Nathan Tye is an associate professor of history at UNK. Tye was born and raised in Kearney, Nebraska. He holds a BA from Creighton University and a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Tye specializes in Nebraska History, the history of the American West and Midwest, and Public History.
His research documents the fascinating but misunderstood lives of hobos, tramps, and other transient workers that traveled across the West and Midwest by hopping trains from the 1870s through 1930s.
History Courses Taught
- HIST 111: Nebraska in the World
- HIST 251: United States History Since 1865
- HIST 479: Nebraska and Great Plains History
- HIST 801: America Interpreted
- HIST 868: Digital History
