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Provides selected library resources for researching Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma),Singapore, Timor Leste, and Vietnam.

Philippine History Holdings, University of Michigan Special Collections

The University of Michigan was heavily involved in the expansion of the U.S. colonial regime in the Philippines. Several U-M faculty and students traveled to the Philippines through the late 19th and early 20th centuries to conduct their research, often taking home with them zoological, anthropological, and archeological materials, much of which were deposited with the university, creating one of the largest collections of Philippine-related material in the U.S. The U-M Libraries Special Collections houses the Philippine History Collection, composed primarily of the materials of Dean Conant Worcester, U-M assistant professor of zoology who served as a member of the United States Philippine Commission and secretary of the interior for the Insular Government of the Philippine Islands. There are two digitized collections, the Philippine Photographs Digital Archive, comprising over 2,100 photographs of the Philippines, and The United States and its Territories, 1870 - 1925: The Age of Imperialism, which is composed of documents from American governance in the Philippines (1898-1910). The William L. Clements library also houses several related collections pertaining to the Philippines, including the Revolutionary Philippines and Cuba Collection, as well as several series of correspondence between U.S. servicemen stationed in the Philippines in the mid-20th century. Recently, strides have been made to consider the repatriation of materials gained through colonial expansion and the building of connections with communities of origin in the Philippines, through the Reconnect/Recollect Project, led by U-M Professors Ricardo Punzalan (School of Information) and Deirdre de la Cruz (Anthropology and History).

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