Social Studies

Native Americans:

• Information about California Natives, broken down by tribe
• Untold History: The Survival of California's Indians

Missions:

• http://www.missionscalifornia.com/
• Junipero Serra and the California Missions Part 1
• Junipero Serra and the California Missions Part 2
• The Missions of California
• California Missions Foundation

California Ranchos:

• California Ranchos San Diego Historic Places

Gold Rush:

• The Start of the California Gold Rush
• The Gold Rush's Environmental Imapct
• PBS' California Gold Rush (see subpages as well)
• The forty-niners: a chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado
• Harvard's collection of Gold Rush information

Westward Expansion:

• History.com's Westward Expansion
• Overland Trails
• The Oregon Trail

Government:

• Ben's Guide to the U.S. Government
• California state government information

General History search engines:

• California Fact Cards - information about Native Californians, Explorers, Missions/life, Ranchos, and CA history by decade
• Library of Congress' early California history
• Library of Congress' "California as I saw it" (more early CA history)
• http://www.ca.gov/
• https://calisphere.org/
• Oakland Museum of CA's collection of California history
• Virtual Museum of SF