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General

• California History and Culture: An extensive site run by the state government. It has information on the culture, history, people, and images of California.



• California History: A site organized by CERES. An excellent site containing multiple links to such diverse topics as pre-European history, transportation, photographic resources, and demographics.



• California Tribes: A resource page created by Paul Giese. Extensive maps of tribal / linguistic distribution, essays on tribal history, etc.



• California as I Saw It: First-Person Narratives, 1849-1900: A web accessible collection of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history through eyewitness accounts. Includes Early California History: An Overiew, a sixteen-part overview of the state's history to 1900. Part of the American Memory project at the Library of Congress.
• California Gold: Northern California folk music from the thirties. Part of the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.



• California Heritage: "A collection of archival finding aids and thousands of photographs (eventually about 25,000) relating to California history." Part of the larger net accessible SunSITE Digital Library at UC Berkeley.



• James Stevenson Publisher - California History: Contains resources and links related to the history of California.



• E Clampus Vitus: An irreverent look at California history. Includes such links as Harlots and Bordellos of the past and information on the Honorable order of E Clampus Vitus.

Local

• UCSC's Regional History Project has materials on the history of Santa Cruz, the university, and Lick Observatory.



• Berkeley Historical Society. Information on exhibitions, walking tours, publications, with extensive links to Berkeley-related sites.



• San Francisco History: Related links, images, and articles.



• Tales from Colma: Information about the city in which San Francisco's dead are buried and stories of those who are buried there.



• CSU Monterey Bay Local History Site: Links to documents and images related to the history of the Monterey Bay area.
• Venice, California, History Web site: History articles about Venice's amusement piers, canals, and historic town.

Genealogy

• California Genealogical Society and Library. Information on library holdings and publications, and special events.



• California Genealogy has county resources for genealogical research, including a database of local records.



• RootsWeb has search engines for California birth and death records.



• African American Genealogical Society Of Northern California.



• California African-American Genealogy Society.



• California Jewish genealogical societies.



• USGenNet has a list of links to local genealogical societies.



• @LA has a similar list for societies in southern California.



• California Pioneers Project: "a list of settlers to California who migrated to or were born in California prior to 1880". Includes a bibliography of Gold Rush era diaries, letters and journals. Also contains links to general information about California and other pioneer, trail, and gold rush sites.



• Native Daughters of the Golden West Pioneer Roster.

Events & Subjects

• California Mission Studies Association: Contains information about the association, articles about the missions, and links to further sites with information about the missions.



• The Virtual California Gold Country: Highway 49 Revisited: "History, literature, travel, business, links... if it has to do with the Gold Country or the Gold Rush, [Elliot Koeppel] wants it here."



• California Gold: The Diary and Letters of James M. Burr, 1850-1853: transcripts of a miner's diary, with extensive background material and a brief bibliography, maintained by Andrea Franzius at Duke.



• Emperor Norton I: bibilography and links about the Eccentric One.



• 1910 Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Field webpage: "Information and access to materials regarding the first International Air Meet held in the United States in January 1910." California State University, Dominguez Hills.



• The Panama-Pacific International Exhibition, 1915: History and Links.



• The Jack London Collection: UC Berkeley SunSITE site. Contains accessible letters, manuscripts, videos, etc.



• Alcatraz - The Warden Johnson Years 1944 - 1948: Links and articles about this subject.



• The Digger Archives: Information about one of the legendary groups in the Haight-Ashbury during the years 1966 to 1968.



• The 1967 Summer of Love: This website tour contains numerous articles and links dealing with all aspects of the summer of love.



• Free Speech Movement Archives: A collection of documents and links related to the Berkeley Free Speech Movement of 1974.

Historiography

• Bidwell, John. Life in California Before the Gold Discovery. Penlitho Press, Menlo Park, CA 1967.
      (submitted by Maria Raymond)



• Brewer, William H. Up and Down California in 1860-1864. Edited by Franics P. Farquhar. 1930; 3d ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.
      —It's a jounal by a literate New Englander who was with the Whitney Survey. (submitted by D. A. Martinich)



• Debuys and Joan Myers, William. Salt Dreams: Land & Water in Low-Down California. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999.
      —A thoughtful and beautiful look at the Imperial Valley and the Salton Sea. (submitted by Judy Austin)



• Farkas, Lani Ah Tye. Bury My Bones in America: The Saga of a Chinese Family in California 1852-1996, From San Francisco to the Sierra Gold Mines. Nevada City: Mautz, 1998.
      (submitted by Maria Raymond)



• Fisher, Kay. A Baggage Car With Lace Curtains. Auburn, Calif.: B&K Fisher, 1986.
      (submitted by Maria Raymond)



• Fradkin, Philip L. The Seven States of California: A Human and Natural History. New York: Holt, 1995.
      (submitted by Maria Raymond)



• Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. Issei, Nisei, War Bride: Three Generations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Service. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986.
      —Mainly done in S.F. (submitted by Maria Raymond)



• Haslam, Gerald. The Other California: The Great Central Valley in Life and Letters. Enlarged ed. University of Nevada Press, 1994.
      (submitted by Maria Raymond)



• Hobart, Alice Tisdale. The Cleft Rock. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1948.
      —Re. the Central Valley. (submitted by Judy Austin)



• Johnson, Gerald Haslam, and Robert Dawson, Stephen. The Great Central Valley: California's Heartland. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
      —A photographic and text project. (submitted by Maria Raymond)



• Kann, Kenneth L. Comrades and Chicken Ranchers: The Story of a California Jewish Community. Cornell University Press, 1993.
      (submitted by Maria Raymond)



• Kikumura, Akemi. Through Harsh Winters: The Life of a Japanese Immigrant Woman. Chandler & Sharp, Pub., Novato,1986.
      (submitted by Maria Raymond)



• Kroeber, Theodora. Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1961.
      —Children's and young adult literature. (submitted by Kevin Hearle)



• Lee, Mary Paik. Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America. University of Washington Press, 1990.
      (submitted by Maria Raymond)



• Levy, Harriet Lane. 920 O'Farrell Street: A Jewish Girlhood in Old San Francisco. 1937; Berkeley: Heydey, 1996.
      (submitted by Maria Raymond)



• Levy, Jo Ann. They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush. University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.
      (submitted by Maria Raymond)



• Longstreth, Richard. On the Edge of the World: Four Architects in San Francisco at the Turn of the Century. 1983; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
      (submitted by Charlene Woodcock)



• Megquier, Mary Jane. Apron Full of Gold: The Letters of Mary Jane Megquier from San Francisco, 1849-1856. Edited by Robert Glass Cleland. Huntington Library, 1949.
      (submitted by Maria Raymond)



• Mills, James R. A Disorderly House: The Brown-Unruh Years in Sacramento. Berkeley: Heydey, 1987.
      (submitted by Maria Raymond)



• Nagel, Gunther W. Jane Stanford: Her Life and Letters. Stanford University Press, 1975.
      (submitted by Maria Raymond)



• O'Dell, Scott. Island of the Blue Dolphin. Haughton, 1960.
      —Children's and young adult literature. (submitted by Kevin Hearle)



• Paul, ed, Rodman W. A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West: Reminiscences of Mary Hallack Foote. Huntington Library Press, 1972.
      (submitted by Maria Raymond)



• Pincetl, Stephanie S. Transforming California: A Political History of Land Use and Development. John Hopkins University Press, 1999.
      (submitted by Maria Raymond)



• Pisani, Donald J. From the Family Farm to Agribusiness: The Irrigation Crusade in California and the West. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
      —Gives a historical/social/political perpective to current water issues. (submitted by D. A. Martinich)



• Quinn, Arthur. Hell With the Fire Out: A History of the Modoc War. Faber & Faber, 1997.
      (submitted by Maria Raymond)



• Reed, Anna Morrison. Anna Morrison Reed, 1849-1921. Edited by John E. Keller. Lafayette, CA., 1979.
      (submitted by Maria Raymond)



• Rodman, Paul. California Gold: The Beginning of Mining in the Far West . 1947; Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1965.
      —A real classic. (submitted by Judy Austin)



• Saroyan, William. The Human Comedy. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943.
      —Children's and young adult literature. (submitted by Kevin Hearle)



• See, Lisa. On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family. Random House, 1995.
      (submitted by Maria Raymond)



• Steinbeck, John. The Red Pony. New York: Covici-Friede, 1937.
      —Children's and young adult literature. (submitted by Kevin Hearle)



• Weitze, Karen J. California's Mission Revival, 1894-1915. Los Angeles: Hennessey and Ingalls, 1983.
      —Architectural history. (submitted by John Snyder)



• Wheelwright, Jane Hollister. The Ranch Papers: A California Memoir. Lapis Press, S.F., 1988.
      (submitted by Maria Raymond)



• White, Stuart Edward. The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado. Chronicles of America series, vol. 25; Oxford University Press, 1918.
      (submitted by Maria Raymond)



• Winter, Robert. The California Bungalow. Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, 1980.
      (submitted by Judy Austin)



• Winter, ed, Robert. Toward a Simpler Way of Life: The Arts & Crafts Architects of California.. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
      (submitted by Judy Austin)



• Wright, Harold Bell. The Winning of Barbara Worth. New York: A. L. Burt, 1913.
      —Re. the Imperial Valley and its flooding. (submitted by Judy Austin)

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