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Selected eBooks

Oregon’s Others: Gender, Civil Liberties, and the Surveillance State in the Early Twentieth Century
The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle’s Central District
Tent City, Seattle: Refusing Homelessness and Making a Home
Treaty Justice The Northwest Tribes, the Boldt Decision, and the Recognition of Fishing Rights
Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West
Black Lives in Alaska A History of African Americans in the Far Northwest
Reclaiming the Reservation: histories of Indian sovereignty suppressed and renewed
Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II
Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City
Spirit Whales and Sloth Tales Fossils of Washington State
Jesintel: Living Wisdom from Coast Salish Elders
Seattle: past to present

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Browsing PNW History

The UW Libraries arranges books by Library of Congress call numbers. Though history is covered in every discipline (e.g., women's history may be located in the women's studies call numbers while the medical history may be in the medicine call numbers), the major sections for PNW history are listed below. Many books dealing with PNW history are housed in Special Collections located in the basement of Allen Library South.

F741-F755 Idaho Suz 3
F852-F854 Pacific Northwest Suz 3
F871-F885 Oregon Suz 3
F886-F900 Washington Suz 3
F901-F951 Alaska Suz 3