History Research Links

HISTORY
Research Links

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Article Databases
Finding Books
Selected Web Sites: General/World History, Primary Sources, U.S. History, California & Bay Area History, Women's History, Middle East, Holocaust, Statistics, Government Documents, Skyline College/North San Mateo County Online Oral History Archives
Related links pages: Ethnic Studies ; Immigration ; Global Issues
Research Assignments

Article Databases (to access articles from magazines, journals, newspapers & books):

Gale History Resource Center- on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Reference articles, primary documents, and full-text magazine, journal and newspaper articles covering all aspects of U.S. and modern world history.
Best for general/background history information, especially “Overview” articles under the “Reference” tab

Enter search word(s) and click the Search button. Use AND between concepts to focus your search, e.g. immigration AND California
If your search finds little or no results, try using the Advanced search mode (this will search in the Full-text of documents)
At the results page, "Reference" articles (articles from reference books) are displayed first
To find good general introductory reference articles, look for “Topic Overview” or “Event Overview” articles (labeled at the right of each citation)
Additional articles may be available by clicking on the article type tabs--"Biographies", "Periodicals", "News", "Primary Sources" & "Maps & Multimedia" at the top of the page.
To find journal articles, click on the "Periodicals" tab. These articles will include a limited number of academic journal articles and more popular magazine articles.
Click here for information on how to tell whether an article is from an academic journal or a popular magazine.
Click on the title of an article to display the full text of the article.
You can email or print any article by using the or buttons at the top of each article.

JSTOR - Scholarly journals archives - on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Back issues of important academic journals, including many historical journals (no current issues) going back to 1838.
Best for in-depth academic journal articles on all historical topics except: recent history and articles published within the last 3 – 5 years

For a basic/general search, enter search words & click Search
To search for a specific topic, click on Advanced Search, and then enter search words for multiple concepts in the separate search boxes
To search for exact phrases, put quote marks around the phrase, e.g. “Thomas Jefferson” or “freedom of the press”
To limit your search to regular journal articles (as opposed to book reviews or editorials), click in the “Article” check box under “Limit by”
If too many articles are found, click on "Modify Search", add additional search words & search again
To email, print or save an article:

Click on “PDF” (at the upper right of the page)
A new window with “JSTOR's Terms and Conditions” will be displayed; click on “OK”
[If your browser blocks pop-ups, you need to hold down the CTRL key while clicking on “OK”]
When the pdf image file is displayed, click on the “Email”, “Print” or “Save a Copy” icons (on the pdf task bar at the top of the page)*
To email the full article, click on “Send Copy”, then enter e-mail address in "To:" entry box and click "Send"*
* pdf functions vary according to the specific software setup for different computers

For more help in how to search the JSTOR database, see the JSTOR Search Help page

Gale PowerSearch databases - on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Articles from academic journals, popular magazines, newspapers and books; excellent set of general periodical databases.
Best for articles on recent historical topics (within the last 10 - 20 years)

o To search for a specific topic, click on the Advanced search mode to search for multiple concepts.

o To limit searches to academic journal articles, click in the check box: “to peer-reviewed publications ” under “Limit results:”

o PLEASE NOTE: When search results are first displayed, only magazine articles are shown, if available for your search.
Click on the “Academic Journals” tab to display journal articles, click on "News" to display news articles; click on "Books" to display book articles.

History Cooperative - on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Database of full-text journal articles from recent issues (going back about 5 – 10 years) from about 25 history journals, including the following: Journal of American History, American Historical Review, The History Teacher, Western Historical Quarterly, Journal of American Ethnic History, Common-place, History of Education Quarterly, Oregon History, Massachusetts Historical Review, New York History & Environmental History.
In-depth academic journal articles on all historical topics

Alt-Press Watch on campus or off campus w/ library card
Articles from about 175 magazines, newspapers & journals from alternative and independent presses.

Country information:
- CountryWatch - on-campus - OR - off campus w/ library card
Political, economic, business and historical information on any country.
- Lands & Peoples - on-campus - OR - off campus w/ library card
Encyclopedia of countries, cultures & current events

Gale Virtual Reference Library Sources (subject encyclopedias):
- Arts and Humanities Through the Eras
- Early Civilizations in the Americas
- Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
- U.S. Immigration and Migration Reference Library
- U*X*L American Decades

Gale Biography Resource Center - on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Database of biographical articles on famous people.

N.Y. Times Archives: Search articles from 1851--1980 (pdf files) or 1981--present (text files). Full-text articles from 1851--1922 & from 1987--present are free. Articles from 1923-1986 cost $3.95 per article. Full-text of articles are also available at Skyline Library on microfilm for 15 cents per page. more info

Historical N.Y. Times (Access to this database requires a SFPL library card number. To receive a SFPL online library card number, click here.)
Full-text of all N.Y. Times articles from 1851-2001.

Historical San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922) (Access requires SFPL library card number. To receive SFPL online library card number, click here.)
Full-text of all S.F. Chronicle articles from 1865-1922

Google Advanced News Archive Search
Historical news archives. For free results only, in “Price” pull-down menu, select “no price”. info

ACLS History E-Book Project - on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Over 1,125 electronic books of major importance to historical studies. You can search to find topics discussed within specific sections of books.

CQ Historic Documents - on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Database of over 3200 full-text documents covering the most significant events of each year from 1972 to the present. These documents range from presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions.

California History Quarterly Subject Index: This index allows you to look up articles in the California History Quarterly journal by subject so you can then find the print volumes in Skyline Library. Select the alphabetical letter of your subject & then use the browser's Find command (on Edit pull-down menu) to find the volume & page numbers of articles on the subject. Skyline Library carries back issues of this journal for the following volumes, issues and dates: v. 9, 10, 12, 14,16, (1930, '31, '33, '37); v. 15 #1, 2, 3, (1936); v. 26-49, (1947 - 1970); v. 51 - 55, 1972 -1976; v.56, 1977 (Incomplete set); v. 57, 1978 - present. (Note: This journal was previously titled: California Historical Quarterly and California Historical Society Quarterly.)

Books:

The PLS Online Catalog is the online catalog to find books in Skyline Library and in all libraries in the Peninsula Library System. After clicking on the link above to access the catalog, follow the steps below:

Type search words in the first search box & click Submit.
The search results will show books and other materials in all libraries in the PLS system
To Limit your results to books at Skyline College Library, scroll down to Limit to: Location: pull-down menu below the search boxes, scroll down in the Location: pull-down menu, select Skyline College & then click the Submit button.
Once you find one book on your topic, click on the Subjects for that book to find other books on the same or related subjects

Selected Web Sites:
Primary Sources
U.S. History
California & Bay Area History
Women's History
Middle East
Holocaust
Statistics
Government Documents

General/World History

History Topics: Links to recommended websites on all historical topics (from Librarians Internet Index)

Historical Text Archive: Comprehensive and eclectic directory of historical resources. Includes primary documents, related links, and electronic versions of print books.

WebChron: The WebChronology Project: This ongoing project contains a series of linked chronologies that depict world, regional, and cross-cultural history. There is a major World History Chronology, and Regional Chronologies that range from Africa South of the Sahara to India and South Asia to North America. Cross-Cultural Chronologies include Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Western Civilization, and Technology.

Network Subject Gateways History Guide: Links to scholarly relevant websites and digital texts in history. All resources are described and evaluated. Use "Advanced Search" to search for sites by keyword.

HyperHistory Online: 3,000 years of world history with a combination of synchronoptic lifelines, timelines, and maps.

EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History: European primary historical documents that shed light on key historical happenings within the respective countries and within the broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history.

20th Century Year by Year: Overview/timeline of 20th Century events, issues, people & milestones year by year.

Primary Sources:

Multiple time periods:

Library Research Using Primary Sources: A research guide from U.C. Berkeley Library.

American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library: An expansive archive of American history and culture from the Library of Congress features photographs, prints, motion pictures, manuscripts, printed books, pamphlets, maps, and sound recordings going back to roughly 1490. Currently this site includes more than 9 million digital items from more than 100 collections on subjects ranging from African-American political pamphlets to California folk music, from baseball to the Civil War.

California as I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California’s Early Years, 1849–1900: Part of the American Memory project, these 190 works presented on this site—approximately 40,000 written pages and more than 3,000 illustrations—provide eyewitness accounts covering California history from the Gold Rush through the end of the 19th century. Most authors represented are white, educated, male Americans, including reporters detailing Gold Rush incidents and visitors from the 1880s attracted to a highly-publicized romantic vision of California life.

Avalon Project: Extensive collection of documents in Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. From Yale Law School.

Internet History Sourcebooks Project: Collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly for educational use.

Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Hundreds of primary source texts intended to serve the needs of teachers and students in college survey courses in modern European history and American history, as well as in modern Western Civilization and World Cultures. (Part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project.)

Many Pasts: Primary documents in text, image, and audio about the experiences of ordinary Americans throughout U.S. history. All of the documents have been screened by professional historians and are accompanied by annotations that address their larger historical significance and context.

A Chronology of US Historical Documents: Key historical documents of the United States, from the pre-Colonial era to the present, presented in timeline fashion.

Core Documents of U.S. Democracy: Current and historical United States government documents which define the American democracy. These legislative and legal, regulatory, presidential, demographic, and economic documents are selected and authenticated by the Government Printing Office's GPO Access service.

Documents For The Study Of American History: Important documents in U.S. history from 800 to the present.

Electronic Text Center: Thousands of literary and historical texts. From University of Virginia.

Eye Witness to History: Narratives and other first person sources for historical events prior to the 1940's, such as the World Wars, the Civil War, Medieval Europe, the Old West, and many others.

Hanover Historical Texts Project: Primary texts from all time periods and regions available to students and faculty for use in history and humanities courses.

In the First Person: Index to more than 3,350 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world.

National Archives and Records Administration: Extensive archives of primary sources. Click on “Research Room” “Digital Classroom” and “The Exhibit Hall”. The Access to Archival Databases (AAD) System provides access to material from more than 30 archival series of electronic records, which include well over 50 million unique records. The series selected for AAD identify specific persons, geographic areas, organizations, or dates. Some of these series serve as indexes to accessioned archival records in non-electronic formats.

Our Documents: 100 milestone documents that chronicle United States history from 1776 to 1965, compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration.

Online Archive of California: Listing of materials such as manuscripts, photographs, and works of art held in libraries, museums, archives, and other institutions across California. Look for links to "online items" for direct access to digital materials.

Project Gutenberg: Thousands of digitized historical and literary texts.

Regional Oral History Office: Transcripts of oral histories from U.C. Berkeley's Regional Oral History Project in the following subject areas: The Free Speech Movement, Women's Suffrage Movement, Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement, The Earl Warren Oral History Project, and Health Care, Science, and Technology.

Specific time periods (rough chronological order):

The Chinese-American Experience: 1857-1892: From Harper's Weekly magazine.

Making of America: Collection of late-nineteenth-century American books and journals covering social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles. From the University of Michigan Digital Library Initiative.

Nineteenth Century Documents Project: A collection of nineteenth century United States primary source material, including documents, editorials, speeches, and articles. Sections include: Early National Politics; Slavery and Sectionalism; Nebraska Bill; Sumner's Caning; Dred Scott Decision; John Brown and Harper's Ferry; 1850s Statistical Almanac; 1860 election; Secession and War; and Post Civil War.

North American Slave Narratives: Narratives of fugitive and former slaves published in broadsides, pamphlets, or book form from beginnings to 1920 and many of the biographies of fugitive and former slaves published before 1920.

The Chinese in California, 1850-1925: About 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials that describe the experiences of Chinese immigrants in California. Materials include photographs, original art, cartoons and other illustrations; letters, excerpts from diaries, business records, and legal documents; as well as pamphlets, broadsides, speeches, sheet music, and other printed matter. Part of the Library of Congress American Memory Project.

Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library: The Library of Congress presents information on Abraham Lincoln, including the Emancipation Proclamation and his assassination, in this online exhibit of primary sources.

First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920: diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives, including not only prominent individuals, but also of relatively inaccessible populations: women, African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans.

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: On March 25, 1911, a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City killed 146 factory workers. This site documents this historic disaster and its aftermath with a collection of photographs, oral histories, political cartoons, audio survivor interviews, copies of original documents, articles, bibliography, and links to related online resources.

Early Arrivals Records Search (EARS) database: Case files for early immigrants to San Francisco & Hawaii from 1882-1943, a collaboration with the National Archives and Records Administration, Pacific Region in San Bruno.

New Deal Network: Hundreds of primary sources related to the Depression era and the New Deal, including letters, photographs, posters, political cartoons, government documents, speeches, and more.

U.S. Latinos and Latinas & World War II Oral History Project: More than 400 interviews documenting Latino WWII experiences.

World War II Primary Source Document Collection: This Collection includes several complete books and several hundred individual documents, all original material relating to WWII; plus the Pearl Harbor Archives hold more than 5,000 pages of documents, exhibits, and testimonies surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project: Personal testimonies of Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated during World War II.

Suffering Under a Great Injustice: Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese American Internment at Manzanar: In 1943, Ansel Adams documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and the Japanese Americans interned there. This site provides side-by-side digital scans of both Adams' 242 original negatives and his 209 photographic prints, collection highlights, Adams' book Born Free and Equal, a selected bibliography, and a chronology of Adams' life. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress.

Orchard Chronicles: Oral History from Santa Clara County & Beyond: Small number of oral histories from Santa Clara Valley & beyond, including farm workers, Depression & Japanese internment camp experiences.

Skyline College/North San Mateo County Oral History Archives: Student audio interview projects, largely first-person accounts related to 20^th century Filipino-American history.

U.S. History:

Article Databases
Finding Books

U.S. History Links from Librarians' Internet Index

A Biography of America: This public television telecourse, video series, and Web site explores United States history via 26 topics, each including interactive maps, key events, transcripts of the series, and Web links. Searchable.

Africans in America: "America's journey through slavery is presented in four parts. For each era, you'll find a historical Narrative, a Resource Bank of images, documents, stories, biographies, and commentaries, and a Teacher's Guide for using the content of the Web site and television series in U.S. history courses." PBS Online.

The American Revolution--H-Net
Liberty!: The American Revolution--PBS
These two sites are companion sites to the 1997 PBS documentary Liberty!: The American Revolution. "Chronicle of the Revolution" contains significant successes and setbacks in the revolution, as well as a bibliography, time line, index of varied related subjects, and collection of annotated links.

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: This website serves as a comprehensive resource for information on newspapers published in the United States from 1690 to the present. Its digital content comprises more than 680,000 individual newspaper page images drawn from close to 100 newspapers published in California, the District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, Texas, Utah, and Virginia, between 1880 and 1910. From the Library of Congress and NEH.

Documents For The Study Of American History: Important documents in U.S. history from 1492 to the present.

Documenting the American South: Thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs including "North American Slave Narratives", "First-Person Narratives of the American South" & "The Church in the Southern Black Community" and more.

HistoryMatters U.S. History Links: Annotated list of Web sites for U.S. History survey courses.

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience: This extensive, well-designed website features images, essays, lesson plans, and maps all focused on the movements of African Americans from the 1400s to the present. The site is built around the history of 13 African American migration experiences: the transatlantic slave trade (1450s-1867), runaway journeys (1630s-1865), the domestic slave trade (1760s-1865), colonization and emigration (1783–1910s), Haitian Immigration (1791–1809), Western migration (1840s-1970), Northern migration (1840s- 1890), the Great Migration (1916–1930), the Second Great Migration (1940–1970), Caribbean immigration (1900-present), the return South migration (1970-present), Haitian immigration in the 20th century (1970-present), and African immigration (1970-present). From the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Making of America: Collection of late-nineteenth-century American books and journals covering social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles. From the University of Michigan Digital Library Initiative.

U.S. Historical Census Data Browser: Data describing the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1790 to 1960.

U.S. National Historic Landmarks Search: Search for information on National Historic Landmarks by name or location. National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) are exceptional places that form a common bond between all Americans. NHLs can be found in our national parks and in communities in every state and territory. Through the National Historic Landmarks Program, the National Park Service oversees the designation of these special places and helps to preserve them.
Also see: U.S. National Historic Landmarks in Wikipedia
Vietnam Passage: Journeys from War to Peace: Companion site to PBS documentary that brings the last 25 years in Vietnam alive through the perspective of seven individuals.

California & Bay Area History

Article Databases
Finding Books

California History Links from Librarians' Internet Index

The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire: Prepared for the 100th anniversary of the disaster, this exhibit and archive features an extensive collection of primary source material, an interactive map, and a 360-degree view of the damage to the city. The primary source material collection makes thousands of images and text files available, including more than 8,047 photographs, 29 broadsides, 528 cityscapes, 538 letters, 18 oral history texts, 161 periodical articles, 109 photomechanical prints, 272 reports, and more than 160 stereographs. From the Bancroft Library, University of California .

Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916: Topics in this collection of twenty-six films include the 1906 earthquake, the Panama Pacific Exposition (1915), and a 1903 Chinese funeral. Searchable by keywords, and browsable by subject and film title. Also features brief information on early San Francisco history, an overview of America during the early nineteenth century, and selected bibliographies on San Francisco and early motion pictures. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress.

Bits of History: Exploring San Mateo County Historical Photographs: Historical photos from collections at South San Francisco Public Library, Redwood City Public Library and the San Mateo County Historical Society.

California Ballot Propositions Database: A "comprehensive, searchable source of information on California ballot propositions from 1911 to the present." Contains "the full text of the propositions, accompanying material contained in the voters' pamphlets, related legal and legislative history, and digital images of the voters' pamphlets." From Hastings College of the Law.

California Heritage Digital Image Access Project: Archive containing over 28,000 historical photographs, pictures, and manuscripts from the collections of the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley.

California Historical Landmarks: Photographs of site and/or plaque, explanation of significance, and location of California historical landmarks. Searchable by county, type of site, and more. Currently includes 949 of 1070 sites around the state.

California Historical Society: includes a California History Online exhibit with over 400 images from the society's collections, a California Cultural Directory (under resources in Programs section) listed by county, with links to those organizations with Web sites, descriptions of the society's collections (with a slide show), and links to related sites.

California History Online: Brief overview of California history presented in a general timeline of major periods of the state's history, by the California Historical Society.

California Recall Election: Links to information on the October 2003 election to recall Gov. Gray Davis in which Arnold Schwartzenegger was elected to replace Davis.

Chinese Historical Society of America: Located at 965 Clay Street, San Francisco, (Phone: 415-391-1188), the Society is one of the oldest and largest organizations dedicated to the study, documentation, and dissemination of Chinese American history.

Cliff House: Brief, illustrated history of the San Francisco landmark. Includes information on Adolph Sutro, the Camera Obscura, & the Musée Mécanique. From the Western Neighborhoods Project.

"Daly City among top 5 in nation for foreign-born" S.F. Chronicle 20 December 2003.

Digger Archives: A historical commentary from the perspective of the Diggers, a San Francisco "anarchist guerilla street theater group that challenged the emerging Counterculture of the Sixties...." .

Filipino San Francisco: Articles from the Shaping San Francisco website

The Fillmore Museum: A history of a San Francisco neighborhood and some of the people who have lived or visited there. Includes a report of Allen Ginsberg's first public reading of his poem "Howl" and information about the district's role in the post-World War II jazz scene. There are also accounts of the changing ethnic makeup of the area and of the businesses that lined the street at various times.

Five Views: An Ethnic Historic Site Survey for California: To "help people more fully recognize and appreciate the accomplishments and contributions of California's varied communities," the California Office of Historic Preservation recruited experts to write narrative histories and identify one hundred recorded historic property sites for each of five ethnic minorities in California: California Indians, Black Americans, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, and Mexican Americans. Especially useful are the lists of historic sites, some with photographs and links to more detailed reports. .

Gold Rush! California's Untold Stories: Virtual tour of the Oakland Museum of California's Gold Rush exhibition, including sections on art, Natives and Immigrants, a quiz, links to "tales from the mines," and curriculum materials for educators. The exhibit includes photographs, artifacts, primary documents, audio files (some in Chinese), maps, and much more.

Gold Rush City: San Francisco in the California Gold Rush: A few selective Web resources and an extensive print bibliography about San Francisco in the late 1840s through the 1850s and beyond.

H-California: Resources: History: Links to California history web resources from H-California, an academic discussion list dealing with California history sponsored by H-Net and the California Studies Association.

Haight-Ashbury Archives: Includes a bibliography, glossary, and annotated links to several sites about one of San Francisco's more famous neighborhoods.

History of Daly City California: “This site is being created by the Daly City Public Library for the purpose of preserving and making available to the community information and artifacts from Daly City's past.”

KQED Education Network: Find pages related to KQED programs, such as Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of S.F. (The Fillmore, The Castro, Chinatown, and The Mission.)

Marin County digital historical archives: The Anne T. Kent California History Room includes oral history transcripts of prominent Marin County residents; digitized photo albums of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Quentin State Prison, the Mt. Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railroad, and other subjects; and digitized copies of brochures, posters, and other Marin County, California, ephemera.

Museum of the City of San Francisco: Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906, 1989 San Francisco Earthquake, 1991 Oakland-Berkeley Hills Fire, Chronology of S.F. Rock 1965-69, WWII history, Flags of SF, and more. The Biographies section features biographical sketches and/or links to material on about ninety prominent Northern California figures; including John A. Sutter, Lotta Crabtree, Leland Stanford, Levi Strauss, and Joe Di Maggio.

Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of S.F. : Pages related to KQED programs, including: The Fillmore, The Castro, Chinatown, and The Mission.

Orchard Chronicles: Oral History from Santa Clara County & Beyond: Small number of oral histories from Santa Clara Valley & beyond, including farm workers, Depression & Japanese internment camp experiences.

Rugged Justice: The 9th Circuit court of Appeals and the American West, 1891-1941: Full-text online version of the book by David C. Frederick, published by University of California Press, c1994.

San Francisco After the '06 Earthquake: "Images from the days after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, including stereographs and anaglyphic (3-dimensional) views" of these topics: Destruction, People, Amidst the Rubble, The Hungry, The Homeless, and Recovery. From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. .

San Francisco Cable Car Museum: Historical information on San Francisco cable cars.. Timelines, primary sources, full-text articles, over 75 photographs and annotated links to other sites are given.

San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection: searchable database provides access to nearly 30,000 photographs covering S.F. history from the 1850s to the present (from S. F. Public Library). You can also browse images by subject.

San Francisco History Index: Includes full texts of books on the city's history; contemporary news articles (largely from San Francisco newspapers); and reference works such as an annotated list of alcaldes and mayors, the first telephone directory, a 1910 street guide, and a history of the cemeteries. News articles cover such topics as "first families," tunnels, and city railroads.

San Francisco Museum and Historical Society: In addition to information about the organization, this searchable site includes several online exhibits (for example, Barbary Coast and 1906 earthquake), an encyclopedia of San Francisco history, book reviews, and links to other history resources.

San Francisco Voter Pamphlets and Propositions: San Francisco ballot propositions from 1907 to present. Search by title, date, proposition letter or number, or (brief) description. Or click on dates in the browsable list of San Francisco elections to view the complete text of the voter information pamphlets. From San Francisco Public Library.

San Mateo County Historical Association and Museum

Santa Clara City Library. Oral History Archive: Links to information on history of Santa Clara County, Santa Clara City & Silicon Valley high tech history

Shaping San Francisco: An interactive multimedia excavation of the lost history of San Francisco - featuring history from the perspective of labor, ecology, African Americans, Filipinos, women, transportation, literary SF and the gay liberation movement.

Skyline College/North San Mateo County Oral History Archives: Student audio interview projects, largely first-person accounts related to Filipino-American history.

Suffering Under a Great Injustice: Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese American Internment at Manzanar - In 1943, Ansel Adams documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and the Japanese Americans interned there. This site provides side-by-side digital scans of both Adams' 242 original negatives and his 209 photographic prints, collection highlights, Adams' book Born Free and Equal, a selected bibliography, and a chronology of Adams' life. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress.

Subject Index to California History Quarterly journal: This index allows you to look up articles in the California History Quarterly journal by subject so you can then find the print volumes in Skyline Library. Select the alphabetical letter of your subject & then use the browser's Find command (on Edit pull-down menu) to find the volume & page numbers of articles on the subject. Skyline Library carries back issues of this journal for the following volumes, issues and dates: v. 9, 10, 12, 14,16, (1930, '31, '33, '37); v. 15 #1, 2, 3, (1936); v. 26-49, (1947 - 1970); v. 51 - 55, 1972 -1976; v.56, 1977 (Incomplete set); v. 57, 1978 - present. (Note: This journal was previously titled: California Historical Quarterly and California Historical Society Quarterly.)

Western Neighborhoods Project (WNP): Western San Francisco: the Richmond and Sunset districts, Lake Merced to Oceanside-Merced Heights-Ingleside (OMI), and west of Twin Peaks. There are sections for each neighborhood, history and some photos of theaters and other historical architecture (e.g., Cliff House and Wyatt Earp's house), and several stories of people and places.

Women's History

Article Databases
Finding Books

American Women's History: A Research Guide: Excellent guide to women's history resources, on and off the Internet. Includes: bibliographies, scholarly books, encyclopedias, biographical sources, Internet multimedia exhibits, and state-specific research guides. Check out Women's History Bookmarks, for the most useful sites in the field on a single page.

American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States

Women in World History Curriculum: biographies, lesson ideas, essays on women in history, brief reviews of books on women's history, and briefly annotated links.

Women's History Links: Links to a wide variety of quality sites, from Librarians' Index to the Internet (LII).

Middle East:

Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP): non-profit organization that provides news and analysis about the contemporary Middle East.

Global Connections: The Middle East: background information for events in the Middle East. There is a timeline of key events from 1900; a thematic section viewing "events through the lens of politics, science, economics, and more"; and a section of "big picture" questions with accompanying essays and lesson plans. From PBS station WGBH.

History in the News: The Middle East: briefly annotated resources about the Middle East. Browsable by topics that include history, religion, culture, economics, politics, maps, news, and media. Also available by country. Developed by the Department of History, State University of New York at Albany.

Middle East Studies Internet Resources: slightly annotated compilation of online bibliographic resources and research materials on the Middle East and North Africa. From the Middle East Studies Department of Columbia University Libraries.

MidEast Web: “started by people active in Middle East dialog and peace education efforts, our goal is to weave a world-wide web of Arabs, Jews and others who want to build a new Middle East based on coexistence and neighborly relations.”

Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs: Produced by the non-profit, non-partisan American Educational Trust, focus is on the United States and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process as well as current affairs throughout the Middle East.

Holocaust:

Article Databases
Finding Books

Holocaust History Project: "free archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust, including direct refutation of Holocaust-denial."

U. S. Holocaust Museum

Holocaust Links: Links to recommended websites (from Librarians Internet Index).

Statistics:

Fedstats: Links to all federal government web pages that have statistics.

General Statistical Resources on the Web: Comprehensive, annotated directory of the best resources for statistics on the Web. The place to start when you want to find a good source for statistics on most topics.

U. S. Historical Census Data Browser: Data describing the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1790 to 1960. From the U.S. Census.

Government Documents:

U.S. Government Documents: A Web site of frequently used government titles at Columbia University Library with their equivalent Web links. While this is not a comprehensive government publications listing, it is nevertheless, a handy directory to popular government reports on topics such as business, crime, education, energy, environment, health, and transportation.

Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information: This is a directory of links to popular government documents on the Internet. The links are organized by topics including major government indexes, business, crime, census, congress, consumer information, copyright, education, foreign countries, health, impeachment, natural resources, law, scientific reports, and tax forms.

Government (UMich Documents Center): Excellent meta-index of local, national, and international government information.

last revised: 11-5-09
by Eric Brenner, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA