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You'll find out the requirements for the major, current courses being offered, and information about the faculty.

New History Titles in Collins Library

Underground Asia by Tim Harper
Call Number: Print Books DS35 .H298 2021
ISBN: 9780674724617
Publication Date: 2021
A major historian tells the dramatic and untold story of the shadowy networks of revolutionaries across Asia who laid the foundations in the early twentieth century for the end of European imperialism on their continent.
Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America by Joe William Trotter
Call Number: Print Books HD8081.A65 T77 2021
ISBN: 9780520377516
Publication Date: 2021
In his engrossing new history, Workers on Arrival, Joe William Trotter, Jr., charts the black working class's vast contributions to the making of America. Covering the last four hundred years since Africans were first brought to Virginia in 1619, Trotter traces black workers' complicated journey from the transatlantic slave trade through the American Century to the demise of the industrial order in the 21st century.

History @ Collins Library

This guide is intended to serve as a starting point for Puget Sound students pursuing research in the field of history. It provides general information as well as links to selected print and electronic resources.

Getting Started leads you to suggested background sources for an overview of your topic.
Primary Sources include examples of original, uninterpreted sources.
Books and More highlight current books, Primo, and search strategies.
Articles focuses on the selection of appropriate databases for locating secondary, scholarly sources.
Writing & Citing provide information about style manuals and citation management tools.

New Resources!

Fannie Lou Hamer: Papers Of A Civil Rights Activist/Political Activist/And Woman
The Fannie Lou Hamer papers contain more than three thousand pieces of correspondence plus financial records, programs, photographs, newspaper articles, invitations, and other printed items. The papers are arranged in the following series: Personal, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Freedom Farms Corporation, Delta Ministry, Mississippians United to Elect Negro Candidates, Delta Opportunities Corporation, and Collected Materials.
Hispanic American Newspapers 1808-1980
Based on the “Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project" at the University of Houston, this collection represents the single largest compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries.

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