The California Historical Society, founded in 1871, is a nonprofit organization with a mission to inspire and empower people to make California's richly diverse past a meaningful part of their contemporary lives.
The Online Archive of California (OAC) provides free public access to detailed descriptions of primary resource collections maintained by more than 200 contributing institutions including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California and collections maintained by the University of California campuses.
Calisphere provides free access to unique and historically important artifacts for research, teaching, and curious exploration. Discover over one million photographs, documents, letters, artwork, diaries, oral histories, films, advertisements, musical recordings, and more.
This collection contains 557,488 issues comprising 5,947,862 pages and 41,488,763 articles.
The California Heritage Collection is an online archive of more than 30,000 images illustrating California's history and culture, from the collections of the Bancroft Library.
Covers years 1849-1900. Site consists of the full texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history through eyewitness accounts.
The Multicultural American West is a resource site for the interactive exchange of ideas, information, and educational tools related to the US West in multicultural and intercultural perspective and pages of primary source materials.
The digitization and presentation of the materials in The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Digital Archive was generously supported by a grant award from the National Park Service as part of the Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program.
The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials.
This database has full-text academic articles in almost every subject, including quite a few peer-reviewed and scholarly journals. A good choice for almost any topic.
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Gale eBooks has reference encyclopedias that you can view online, which are useful for giving you a brief overview and important aspects of your topic.
Search and read over 100,000 books---all in digital format. Books cover a wide array of subjects.
Watch award-winning documentaries and educational programs and browse the entire US History collection of videos.
Watch award-winning documentaries and educational programs about Manifest Destiny, frontier settlement, immigration, continued Indigenous land colonization, and more.
Educational programs from well-known producers like A&E, BBC, and PBS - choose a topic and explore programming. Some topic groups include:
