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Welcome to the History Research Guide. This guide covers historical background information and resources such as books, articles, and archive collections. Locate resources by region, historiography, and learn about citations. Select the tabs on the left to find more information.

Image: Department of Labor. Women's Bureau. 7/1/1920-7/21/1967. Chippers in a shipyard [ Shipbuilding. Three women working]. 1942. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://catalog.archives.gov/id/522892.

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Queer Pasts This link opens in a new window
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Primary source exhibits for students and scholars of queer history and culture.
African Diaspora, 1860-Present This link opens in a new window
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Sources covering the diaspora with a focus on communities in the Caribbean and United Kingdom. Includes UK Colonial and Foreign Office records, magazines such as the West Indian Digest & more.
Fannie Lou Hamer: Papers of a Civil Rights Activist, Political Activist, and Woman. This link opens in a new window
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Financial records, programs, photographs, newspaper articles, invitations, and other printed items of Fannie Lou Hamer, from 1966-1978.
Labor and Employment: The American Worker [HeinOnline] This link opens in a new window
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Thousands of titles on the American workplace, covering the labor rights movement in the 19th century to the workplace of today.
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories. This link opens in a new window
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This collection includes 2,162 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of information, providing a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950

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