Welcome Contributing to a ‘greater’ understanding of the region, its people and places through a vast collection of resource materials on Arizona and the Southwest, the Greater Arizona Collection includes personal papers, photographs, organizational and business records, congressional and political papers and community-centered materials. It features a variety of primary and secondary resources documenting politics, mining, labor history, Phoenix history, water and land management, organizational history and community-based history. Collections of note Herbert and Dorothy McLaughlin Black and White Photography, 1850s–1977 Over 100,000 photographs documenting agriculture, mining, recreation, transportation, city and aerial views, schools and churches. View finding aids for McLaughlin photography U.S. Congressional Research Collection The papers of a number of Arizona senators and congressmen, including Carl T. Hayden, Barry M. Goldwater and John J. Rhodes. More information about the U.S. Congressional Research Collection Gila River "Relocation" Center Photographs Photographic prints of the Gila River Relocation Center, 1942-1945, available online in the ASU Digital Repository.  View the Gila River Relocation Center Photographs , Information Access the collection Materials in this collection can be viewed by appointment in the Wurzburger Reading Room at Hayden Library (rm. 138). Please make an appointment at least five business days prior to your visit by contacting Ask an Archivist or call 480-965-4932 for more information. Questions? Ask an Archivist , Resources Greater Arizona Collection Library Guide Arizona Archives Online ASU Digital Repository ASU Distinctive Collections Policies American Continental Corporation Use Agreement Arizona AFL-CIO Use Agreement Camera Use Agreement Using our collections in publications , Renee James Assistant Archivist renee.d.james@asu.edu 480-965-9279

Host June Grasso speaks with prominent attorneys and legal scholars, analyzing major legal issues and cases in the news.

Years-long court challenges attempting to stop the federal government’s transfer of sacred tribal land in Arizona to a copper mining company show how US religious protections haven’t been equally applied, academics and attorneys say.

Keith Richotte models his narrative on the Native tradition of the trickster story — parables of creation and change where an unreliable narrator dupes the listener into reshaping their perception of reality.

When forces unite with no care for the Constitution, the rule of law or anything you learned in civics class, you can end up with the entrenched overreach of the Plenary Power Doctrine.

House Committee on Natural Resources - Democrats

On the test case that provoked the courts to decide whether the federal government had jurisdiction to exercise American criminal law over Native peoples on Native lands.

"Narratives written by enslaved Africans in America are few in number. Some are transformative, like that of Harriet Jacobs; others are lesser, like the brief one attributed to Harriet's brother, John S. Jacobs. The revelation, here, of a much longer, richer, and more radical version of John's story, is a major historical event. His work is all the more significant for having been written and published in Australia, outside the sanitizing and bowdlerizing influence of the American Abolitionist movement. Jacobs's full account is a startling and clear expression of the true thoughts, words, and wide-ranging experiences of a man once enslaved"--

"A new kind of history of the Southwest (mainly New Mexico and Arizona) that foregrounds the stories of Latino and Indigenous peoples who made the Southwest matter to the nation in the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.

This is a description of the Federal Indian Boarding school program, the origins of Orange Shirt Day, and the relationship of the U.S. Federal Indian Boarding school program to Canada's residential school program.