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Associations, Centers and Other Organizations

Here you will find links to groups who concentrate their energy on specific subjects and disciplines related to California.

• The California Institute for Rural Studies CIRS is a private non-profit research organization located in Davis, California. Incorporated in 1977, we are currently celebrating our 20th year of research and outreach aimed at improving lives, conditions and economies of rural areas.
• Fort Ross Global Village This project brings schoolchildren from California, Russia, and Alaska together on the Internet to study archaeology and history at Fort Ross. Good site for historical overview of Fort Ross Area of Northern California.
• H-CALIFORNIA List Server H-California exists so that people involved in California Studies can communicate with each other more easily. We hope to sponsor reviews of new books dealing with California topics, develop an exchange of course syllabi dealing with California subjects, announce matters of interest for those interested in California studies, develop a web site for California studies, and serve as a channel of communication for the California Studies Association.

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Atlases and Geographic Information

In this section we will place California maps, census information and geologic links

• California's San Andreas Fault Map
• California Downloadable Maps 
• CALIFORNIA MAP PAGE
• Cal ifornia Maps
• California Point and Click Sensitive Map
• CIA World Fact book 1997 An incredible database of current geophysical and human activity information from nearly every corner of the planet.
• Cultural Maps Cultural Maps is dedicated to the graphical presentation of non-graphical information -- whatever that turns out to mean. At present, it has something to do with maps in the ordinary and normal sense of the term; the immediate goal is to build a digital American Historical Atlas. To the extent that maps serve as guides not only to the physical terrain but also and importantly as charts of the map maker's mental and cultural terrain, of the memories and desires, anxieties and assumptions he projects upon any terra incognita, we have begun building an historical geography of America. Eventually, this space will come to include graphs, charts, and images, in fact anything that serves as a concrete and physical representation of abstract ideas and intangible feelings.
• The Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection: Electronic Maps. Excellent resource for maps of particular countries.
• Thesaurus of Geography Names, The Getty Information Institute site has a map and links to resources on the Southern Coastal Native Americans of California.

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Directory of California Studies Programs

• The Center For California Studies, California State University, Sacramento is a public service, educational support, and applied research institute of California State University, Sacramento. It is dedicated to promoting a better understanding of California's government, politics, peoples, cultures and history.
• The Center for Southern California Studies, CSU, Northridge  (CSCS) was established in the Fall of 1996 to coordinate and promote faculty research, applied research and professional services, and California Studies in campus curriculum.
• California State University, Chico  Information regarding what the university offers in the field of California Studies.
• California State University, Hayward - California Studies Program
• California State University, Northridge Information regarding what the university offers in the field of California Studies.
• Sacramento State University - The Center for California Studies A public service, educational support, and applied research institute of California State University, Sacramento. It is dedicated to promoting a better understanding of California's government, politics, peoples, cultures and history.
• San Francisco State University's California Studies Program
• Sonoma State University - California Cultural Studies A special major in Interdisciplinary Studies in California Cultural Studies. California Cultural Studies (CCS) has been established in order to bring together writers, scholars, artists, and students from various fields, organizations, and disciplines whose interests are in the study of California. CCS aims to attract a diverse group of students, representing a number of different ethnic and cultural groups as well as regions within California, into a learning community devoted to the study, preservation, and development of California's cultural life. The program has been designed so that students, scholars, and artists might work on projects of a common interest in an intellectually simulating atmosphere.
• University of Southern California's web site for the Southern California Studies Center is a unique, campus-wide, interdisciplinary initiative. Its principal goal is to monitor and guide the transformations in environment, politics, economics, culture and society of Southern California.

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California History

• Alta California History and Sonoma Historical society
• Big List of California History Links Just a links page. you will find some interesting leads here.
• Birch Lane School in Davis This local history project was done by Birch Lane School in Davis, California. the town in which they live and its rich history.
• Bodega Bay Short history of Bodega Bay since 1775.
• Eureka Places to see in Eureka with links to history
• California History "Dogtown Territoral Quarterly" A California History Magazine with a focus on the Gold Rush era and collectable and rare coinage.
• California History Links A nice links page layed out in categories done by a fourth grader.
• California History Page
• California History Time line
• California History Another time line of events
• California Historical Society As the state's official historical society, we hold extensive materials about California's rich history. Our Web site is still young, but growing and it primarily provides "content" for researchers.
• Calif ornia History Seminar Dinners series, Department of Geography, UC Berkeley The California History Seminar Dinners series that meets once a month at The Faculty Club on the Berkeley campus to discuss in topics about the state of California. A guest speaker is featured at each event, and typically the speaker's presentation is followed by questions, answers, and discussions relevant to the topic.
• California missions Links to CA missions, Mexican California, Westward Movement and the Bear Flag Revolt from a grade school textbook "Oh, California"
• California Home Page: History and Culture This site provides a general overview of California history, culture, and people, as well as offering several other links to related subjects.
• Californios and the American leaders This site describes the Californios and the American leaders in the Mexican War through recounting the Battle of San Pasquel.
• Captain John Fremont A short history of Captain John Fremont in California.
• Cahuilla peoples of Southern California. This is a brief overview description of the Cahuilla peoples of Southern California.
• Chinese Historical and Cultural Project The Chinese Historical and Cultural Project (CHCP) is based in Santa Clara County, California. It was founded in 1987 as a non-profit organization to promote and preserve Chinese American and Chinese history and culture through community outreach activities.
• Early California History: An Overview
• Gay and Lesbian Historical Society of Northern California. Founded in 1985, the GLHS is a community-based, nonprofit, educational organization. A full-time, professional archivist works to catalogue and preserve our collections according to professional archival standards. Much support is done by volunteer members, working to document everything from private lives to public events.
• Goldfever This is a history of the Gold Rush.
• Gold Rush Background material about the Gold Rush, its history, gold mining in general. Vintage pictures are included
• History Links - Native Americans
• Japanese American History Archives The Japanese American History Archives is an extensive, growing collection of books, periodicals, documents, maps, photographs, art and film relating to the Japanese experience in the United States from the mid-1800s, when the first Japanese pioneers set foot on American soil, to the present.
• Keane Wonder Mine in Death Valley Find out about lead and silver mining in Southern California in this description of the Keane Wonder Mine in Death Valley.
• Los Angeles River watershed Visual history of the Los Angeles River watershed from Pre-Columbian to modern times
• Martina Castro This tells the story of Martina Castro, a Mexican woman during the Rancho period of California's history.
• Mexican California
• Napa Valley This site provides information on the history of wine grape agriculture in the Napa Valley.
• Oakland Museum of California Travel a time line starting on the paths of California Indians and ending on California's famous freeways.
• Rosemead Public Library The California Collection at Rosemead Public Library, Rosemead, CA. consists of approximately 15,000 volumes of books and over 200 periodicals titles in paper and on microfilm as well as a collection of videotapes. The goal of this collection is to present a complete picture of the history, culture, environment and artistic expression of the people of California and to some extent, the western United States.
• San Diego history This site gives an historical overview of San Diego history from exploration through the 19th century. It has links to photos and some primary source material.
• San Diego History This site is a brief overview of historical San Diego. It links to information about key historic groups, individuals and buildings.
• San Diego Presidio Historic pictures of the San Diego Presidio, the Mission San Diego Alcala, and Old Town.
• Santa Claira Valley Historical Society
• Santa Monica Mountains This site has resources on the history and people of the Santa Monica Mountains in Southern California.
• SFSU History Department Web page devoted to research in history and related fields.
• Southern California history important people Important figures in the development of Southern California history. Written by the Daily Bulletin, the article provides information on two figures from of the city of Ontario, George and Williams Chaffey.
• The California Heritage Collection is an online archive of over 28,000 images illustrating California's history and culture from the collections of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.
• Southern California History Sites
• Southern California Lesbian History
• Western U.S. history with lots of links

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California State Government Links

• Archaeology and History in California's State Parks From this page we invite you to explore some of the studies done on archaeological sites, historic structures and ancient artifacts in California.
• The California Environmental Resources Evaluation System CERES is an information system developed by the California Resources Agency to facilitate access to a variety of electronic data describing California's rich and diverse environments.
• California History at the Library of Congress Library of Congress's first digital collection building on the exceptional holdings in the Library's General Collections and Rare Book and Special Collections Division in the area of state and local history.
• California State Library The Catalog provides listings and descriptions of most of the holdings of the California State Library, including books, periodicals, microfilm, microfiche, maps, and many other formats of materials.
• California State Parks, California's Sesquicentennial Commemorates the 150th anniversaries of gold discovery, the Gold Rush and initiation into statehood. Also links to other pages offering a wealth of information about California history and culture.
• California Department of Parks and Recreation Links
• Government of California Links Links to other online sources for information on California and Federal Policy.
• State of California Online Resources for Education This site is part of an exciting new network of Online Resource Centers in California linking quality resources from the World Wide Web to the California curriculum.

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Centers of Regional Study

In this section you will find links to universities around the world who have regional studies programs. Not everything is related to California but because the internet provides such a vast database of interrelated information we find this section indispensible.

• American Studies University of Virginia
• Arkansas and Regional Studies
• Center for the Study of Southern Culture University of Mississippi
• Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University This page will eventually include: An Introductory Essay on Regional Studies; Bibliographies and Bibliographical Essays; Electronic Discussion Lists and Newsgroups; and Teaching Resources and Projects. Currently, we have compiled a list of links related to the subject, The Internet Resources in Regional Studies
• The Center for Regional and Economic Development Studies
• Diploma in Local and Regional Studies University of Bradford Public Courses From January 1999
• The Institute for Regional Studies, founded at North Dakota State University
• Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias
• The John Muir center for regional Studies
• Kentucky and Regional Studies The University Press of Kentucky
• Regional Studies Journal of the Regional Studies Association
• Stanford University
• Subje ct Maps Regional Studies
• UCSB: directory of regional studies Huge, every item has a web link
• University of California, Los Angeles
• University of California, Davis This web site provides a wealth of information on varying topics dealing with California's unique and diverse environment.
• Vermont Studies Minor The University of Vermont

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Indexes of Links to Other Sites

• American Philosophical Society Library
• Anthro Net Bibliographic references (by author), links for California prehistory and ethnography.     
• Bay Area Progressive Directory A list of resources and directories of various topics.   
• California Council for the Humanities Humanities related Links    
• Chicano Library Resource Center: Assistance in citizenship issues, history and culture.     
• Graig List, a San Francisco/Bay Area Community multi link site. Housing Info, Employment, Event    
• H-California   Links to California History   
• Horus' Web Links to History Resources
• Link to Ancient History
• Todo Latino, A Latino oriented site with multiple links and search engines and current news.   
• Muy Bueno  Promoting Bay area Latino Business, Community, Culture and Education     
• UCSB Anthropology Web Links
• World History Compass
• Think California  Numerous links to California relatied sites.  

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Museums, Exhibits, & Archives

• Cali fornia Academy of Science, California Collections. Information of 1,800 objects, digital images of hundreds of objects, links to other department pages, and e-mail to anthropology staff. Data base with search capabilities.
• California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives, University of California, Santa Barbara Library The California Ethnic and Multi cultural Archives (CEMA) in the Donald C. Davidson Library at the University of California, Santa Barbara is a collection of primary research materials that documents the cultural and political experiences of the African American, Asian American/Pacific Islander, Chicano/Latino, and Native American ethnic groups in California.
• Fine Arts Museum San Francisco
• Silver and Gold - Native Californian
• Alternate Names for Native California Tribes
• Recognized tribal Lands in California - EPA map

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Native American Resources in California

• CALIFORNIA tribes: Main Access Map and tribes listing
  Anthropology UCSB library.
• Cabazon Band of Mission Indians
• California Indian Conference
• California Indian Basket weavers Association
• California Indian Library Collections
• The California Indian Storytelling Association
• California Indian Subject Specialists
• California' s Lost Tribes
• California Native American Resources
• California POMO Tribal Information
• The California Pomo People, Brief History -- Native American Art
• Cahuilla peoples of Southern California. This is a brief overview description of the Cahuilla peoples of Southern California.
• Chumash Indian Interpretive Center, Thousand Oaks
• Chumash Nation The official web site of the Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation. Examines current issues affecting the Chumash Nation.
• Costanoan-Ohlone Indian Canyon Resource, Hollister, CA
• Desert Canyons of California Rock Art This great concentration of rock art lies in the protected desert canyons of California.
• First Americans Research Resources
• "Gra ss Roots" exhibits Native Californian culture
• H-AMINDIAN List-Serve Discussion Group
• History Links - Native Americans
• Indians of California - Harvey Mudd College
• Kroeber's Handbook of the Indians of California, Chapter 1
• Nati ve People of California
• News from Native California
• Northern California Indian Development Council The Northern California Indian Development Council, Inc. (NCIDC) was founded to research, develop and administer programs designed to meet the specific social and economic needs of the American Indian people.
• Ohlone/Costanoan Esselen Nation
• Ohlone Indians
• The Ohlone Culture: The Earliest Bay Area Residents
• Pomo Baskets for Gifts, Ceremonies
• San Jose acute; Public Library: Native American Materials
• A Second Century of Dishonor : Federal Inequities and California Tribes
• Silver and Gold - Native Californian
• Southern Coastal Native Rock Art This site has a map and links to resources on the Southern Coastal Native Americans of California.
• Southern California Native American Rock Art This map shows the areas where seven of the Southern California Native American tribes lived. There are links to resources to expand the study.
• Southern California Indians Southern Desert Region
• Southern California Indian Center
• Society for the Study of Indian Languages Association (SSILA)
• WWW Virtual Library - Index of Native American Resources on the Internet

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News Groups, Mail Lists and FAQs

In order to read the news groups listed here, your Web client must be set to access an NNTP server.

• H-CALIFORNIA List Server H-California exists so that people involved in California Studies can communicate with each other more easily. We hope to sponsor reviews of new books dealing with California topics, develop an exchange of course syllabi dealing with California subjects, announce matters of interest for those interested in California studies, develop a website for California studies, and serve as a channel of communication for the California Studies Association.
• General Information related to California
• Discussion lists on Driving in California.
• Environmentaly oriented email lists about California.
• Politics in California.  More email lists and discussion links about California and Politics.

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Sources of Images

Extended presentations of discrete topics and image archives are likely to be listed here.

• American West A collection of historical photos from a variety of settings in California's history.
• Earthquake of 1906 and Chinese Migration in California A collection of historical photos from a variety of settings in California's history. Pictures and texts on all parts of San Francisco history with an emphasis on the earthquake of 1906 and Chinese Migration in California.
• The California Heritage Collection An online archive of over 28,000 images illustrating California's history and culture from the collections of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Texts, News Papers, Web Documents, Journals, & Bibliographies

• California News Index, a list links to on-line newspapers in California.
• Collecting Fossils in California This web site is dedicated to the historical and current fossil finds recorded in California.
• Coyote Press Specializing in Archaeology, History, Prehistory, Ethnography, Linguistics, Rock Art, and Native American Studies of Western North America.
• Homosexuality in History - An [Partially] Annotated Bibliography
• Journal of California Anthropology
• Joshua Tree National Park.
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, West Coast Regional Node Scientists with the Center's Pacific Fisheries Environmental Group(PFEG) in Pacific Grove, California, study environmental influences on marine resources.

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Submit your own link to calstudy@sfsu.edu.

Anyone finding a closed or dead  link should contact calstudy@sfsu.edu.

This web page originally created by Joseph Belk , undergraduate student in Anthropology at SFSU and updated 11/00.