Ask faculty who know you well and can speak at length regarding your abilities and interests.
Only ask academic faculty—your supervisor at the bank may know you well but is not in a place to discuss your academic qualifications.
It’s okay to include a letter from a non-historian—many good applicants have double majors and minors and faculty in those programs may be able to speak about your abilities better than a random History professor with whom you have taken one class.
Give faculty at least a month’s lead time to write that letter. You do NOT want to be that student who requests a letter in 72 hours. Faculty are not likely to be effusive in their praise for a student who is disrespectful of their time in that way.
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