LINKS FOR AMERICAN HISTORY STUDENTS

BAY AREA LIBRARIES

BAY AREA ARCHIVES

SELECTED WEBSITES FOR AMERICAN HISTORY

HISTORICAL STATISTICS OF THE U.S., U.S. CENSUS DATA, CALIFORNIA DEMOGRAPHIC DATA,  STATISTICAL ABSTRACTS

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INFLATION/DEFLATION CALCULATORS

  BAY AREA LIBRARIES

J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State Uni.

Find Databases in History, Leonard Library, SF State
(Includes links through the SF State library to a wide variety of online resources for historical research)

UC Berkeley San Francisco Public Library California State Library, Sacramento

UC San Francisco

J. Porter Shaw Library, National Maritime Museum

Boalt Law Library

 UC Davis

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Hasting Law Library

  RESEARCH ARCHIVES IN THE BAY AREA

On the SFSU Campus:
Labor Archives and Research Center
480 Winston Drive
(labor and the left. northern California)

Online Archive of California
California Digital Library

On the SFSU campus:
Special Collections/ Archives
(history of SFSU)

Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley
(U.S. history, especially California and the West)
Regional Oral History Office, UC Berkeley

Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University

Judah Magnes Jewish Museum Libraries and Archives, Berkeley (western Jewish history)

National Archives, Pacific Region
(federal agencies in northern Calif. and the Pacific; microfilm copies of federal records)

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California Historical Society
(history of California; severely restricted hours)

. WEBSITES FOR AMERICAN HISTORY

Gilded Age & Progressive Era

California

The Cold War

 California in the Great Depression

Maps

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 WEBSITES THAT CALCULATE CHANGES
IN INFLATION AND DEFLATION (United States only)
 

Cost of Living Calculator
(since 1913 only; American Institute for Economic Research)

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The Inflation Calculator
(since 1800)

 

  HISTORICAL STATISTICS (United States only)

Historical Statistics of the United States
(must be accessed through SF State Library)

California Statistical Abstract 
Ca. Dept of Finance

Selected Historical Census Data
U.S. Census Bureau

Statistical Abstract of the U.S.
U.S. Census Bureau

IPUMS:  Integrated Public Use Microdata Series 
historical census microdata for social and economic research, University of Minnesota

United States Historical Census  Data Browser
University of Virginia

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