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American Experience
American Experience, produced by PBS, brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that helped form our nation.
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Historical News
Chronicling America, a project of the Library of Congress, is enhancing access to America's Newspapers from 1690 to the present. Here are some of the recent articles that have been added to the collection.
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High School Year Books
A list of yearbooks available in Contra Costa County Libraries, excluding the Richmond Public Library.
http://guides.ccclib.org/data/files2/73514/High%20School%20Yearbooks.doc
Genealogy
California Digital Newspaper Collection Index: http://cdnc.ucr.edu/newsucr
Databases
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- History Resource Center (US)
Provides a complete overview of U.S. history covering the most-studied events, issues, and current information. Selected by expert history advisors, the content combines current full-text periodicals, multimedia, and reference articles. - History Resource Center (World)
Integrates secondary sources, primary sources, and full-text articles from academic journals and periodicals from around the world. - Social Studies Fact Card
Fact Cards are a series of research resources designed for quick reference for students in grades 4 through 8. The topics covered by Fact Cards are those California, United States, and World topics included in the social studies curriculum in California. - California Digital Newspaper Collection The California Digital Newspaper Collection offers over 200,000 pages of California newspapers spanning the years 1849-191l: the Alta California, 1849-1891; the San Francisco Call, 1893-1910; the Amador Ledger, 1900-1911; the Imperial Valley Press, 1901-1911; the Sacramento Record-Union, 1859-1890; and the Los Angeles Herald, 1905-1907.
- Best History Websites Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.
- Presidents of the United States This site provides a lot of information, known and not so well known, about the Presidents of the United States. For example, it informs views on who was the first President to be born in a hospital, or who was the first president to fly in an airplane.
Web Sites
- Calisphere University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. Themed collections are organized into historical eras and aligned with California Content Standards for K-12 classroom use.
- American Memory A gateway to the vast resources of digitized American historical materials. Over 9 million documents are organized into 100+ thematic collections.
- Historic Government Publications from WWII A digital collection of more than 300 U.S. Government publications distributed during the course of the war. Brought to you by the U.S. Government Printing Office and Southern Methodist University Central University Libraries.
- The Bancroft Library The Bancroft Collection of Western Americana provides the documentary basis for understanding the settlement and development of California and the American West.
- California Historical Societies and Museums This is a directory of historical societies and museums throughout the state of California. Provides information about each society/museums specialty, open hours, contact information, and web site.
- Los Californianos Founded in 1968 by descendants of early Hispanic Californians, this society supports the research of Spanish and Mexican Alta California.
- The American Jewish Historical Society Founded in 1892, the American Jewish Historical Society’s holdings include 20 million documents, 50,000 books, paintings and other objects that bear witness to the remarkable contributions of the American Jewish community to life in the Americas.
- Online Archive of Califorina (OAC) The Online Archive of California (OAC) provides free public access to detailed descriptions of primary resource collections maintained by more than 150 contributing institutions including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California and collections maintained by the 10 University of California (UC) campuses.
Featured Book
Conduct Under Fire - John A. Glusman
Call Number: 940.5472 GLUSMAN
ISBN/ISSN: 0670034088
This is the story of four American doctors and their fight for life as prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945
Subject Guide |
 Louise O'Dea |
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