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This Research Guide offers some suggestions and tips for locating information for reunions, alumni events, compiling histories of a department or group, or other historical projects. University Archives staff are happy to help answer questions, just ask!
A quick review of campus history might give you some ideas of how to start your research. Below are books to consider reviewing.
all available through the WashU Libraries system:
Beginning a great work : Washington University in St. Louis, 1853-2003 by 
Names that live : an account of the people for whom the buildings at Washington University are named and of the benefactors who gave them
Washington University in St. Louis : its design and architecture by History of Washington University, 1853-1953 by 
Lion of the valley : St. Louis, Missouri, 1764-1980 by 
In addition to the published sources listed below, brief information files on other departments and schools are available at University Archives in the Washington University School and Department History Files (WUA00031) (Listed in alphabetical order by school, department, or college)
[School of Architecture] Givens Hall, 1960-1993 : a personal journey by 
150 Years of Mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis by 
Neurosurgery at Washington University : a century of excellence by 
What we believe : a history of the George Warren Brown school of social work, 1909-2007 by 
