Evaluating Web Sites
Would you use this web site for your research paper?
Yes? No? Why?
Web Evaluation ABCs:
Authority: Is the website from an authoritative source? Check "About Us."
Bias: Is the website trying to sell you goods or an idea?
Currency: Is the information current?
Selected Web Resources
Primary sources are often curated and archived by universities, institutions, and organizations that are dedicated to sharing these stories. Many of these are made available online. Browse some of these collections!
- African American Collections: African Americans in CaliforniaBibliographies, a historical narrative of African Americans in California, and a chronological story of the influence of African Americans in California.
- California Cultures: African AmericansHistoric photographs and artwork of the changing lives of African Americans from the Gold Rush Era and Statehood, through the civil rights.
- California Ethnic MinoritiesSourisseau Academy for California State and Local History. This is a compilation of papers presented at a symposium held in 1978.
- California Historical SocietyCalifornia Historical Society provides access to digital collections online pertaining to California's history.
- CSU Japanese American Digitization Project CollectionsThe 23-campus California State University project that digitized and archived materials that describe the Japanese American experience in California.
- Early California History: An OverviewFrom the "California as I saw it" (Library of Congress - American Memory)
- Events in the WestFrom the PBS 1996 "The West" series: interactive timeline charts with short entries.
- Japanese American Evacuation and ResettlementFrom U.C. Berkeley Bancroft Library. Includes over 530,000 primary source materials of the Japanese American experience during WWII.