• Encyclopedia of San Francisco - from the San Francisco Museum & Historical Society - an interesting project in need of more contributions
• San Francisco History - by Ron Filtion at sfgenealogy.com
• FoundSF - a growing archive of the city - created by Shaping San Francisco and the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society
• The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco - lots of source materials
• Shaping San Francisco - brings a unique perspective of history from the perspective of labor, ecology, African Amercians and women
• San Francisco Memories - lots of great photos!
• America Hurrah! - by Wagon Master Bill Roddy - a nice contribution to SF history online
• SF Gate: Bay Area 2000 - KRON's documentaries - a little unfocused, but has a fun history quiz
• Reflections on Black History - by Thomas C. Fleming - a great collection of essays from the perspective of a black person living here in the first half of the 20th century.
• Pier 70 San Francisco - nice job documenting the history of this part of the city
  

  Historical Societies/Centers: - California - San Francisco - Berkeley - Burlingame - Clayton - Forestville - Livermore - Martinez - Palo Alto - Union City - Point Richmond - Tomales - Contra Costa County - Japanese American - Chinese - Gay and Lesbian - Barbary Coasters - Bay Area Airline - See also a list from the California Territorial Quarterly and Yahoo's Directory of Bay Area History Organizations

San Francisco, California - at Wikipedia interactive Encyclopedia
San Francisco History - Lonely Planet World Guide
SAN FRANCISCO - from the Encyclopedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition 1900-11

Free Walking Tours of San Francisco by City Guides with a great Events Calendar
The Gold Rush Trail .
Angel Island Association - events and visiting info
San Francisco City Hikes

San Francisco Landmarks - a table with photos
CERES: State Historical Landmarks for San_Francisco County
California Landmarks - San Francisco County - by Donald Laird

Angie's California Teachers Corner - (grades 4-6)

• Welcome to the official website of the Muwekma Ohlone Indian Tribe. We are the aboriginal inhabitants of San Francisco, California, USA.
• An 'Unvanished' Story: 5,500 Years of History in the Vicinity of Seventh & Mission Streets, San Francisco
• Spanish Period: 1540 - 1820
• Web de Anza - provides students and scholars with primary source documents and multimedia resources covering Juan Bautista de Anza's two overland expeditions from the Sonoran desert to northern California, leading to the colonization of San Francisco in 1776
• San Francisco 1852 City Directory - the first published San Francisco Directory
• January 16, 1865: Daily Dramatic Chronicle makes its debut. Founded with a borrowed $20 gold piece by two teenagers, Charles and Michael de Young, then 19 and 17. History Of The San Francisco Chronicle
• Early California History: An Overview - from "California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 - [Library of Congress]
• History of San Francisco Chinatown - a timeline from 1848 ...

• 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire - 5:12 AM April 18, 1906
• The 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition - The Panama Pacific International Exposition was the 1915 worlds fair held in San Francisco, California. Taking over three years to construct, the fair had great economic implications for the city that had been almost destroyed by the great earthquake and fire of 1906.
• Remnants of a Dream traces the journeys some of the relics from the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) have taken since it ended more than 86 years ago. It chronicles the magnificent, slightly mad, achievements of what others have christened the “Best of the Great Expositions”.
• It all happened on Fillmore Street - When the Earthquake and Fire of 1906 destroyed most of San Francisco, the Fillmore was untouched and for several months afterwards served as the commercial and political center of the city.
• Filling the Marina - San Francisco has gone through tremendous land changes, and these changes have been dictated mostly by commercial interest. Originally, San Francisco had a very wavering waterfront that consisted mostly of sand dunes. The edge that faced the sea was eventually developed.
• Golden Gate Bridge construction started in 1933
• The China Clipper - November 11, 1935...Pan American Airway's China Clipper made the first transpacific airmail flight from San Francisco to Honolulu, Midway Island, Wake Island, Guam, and Manila, The Philippines
• George Seldes 1934 Report on press and strike
• Japanese American Internment - In the entire course of the war, 10 people were convicted of spying for Japan, all of whom were Caucasian (starting in 1942)

• LitKicks: San Francisco ... The Beat legacy of the city
• Digger Archives - 1966-1968 and beyond ... " an ongoing Web project to preserve and present the history of the anarchist guerrilla street theater group that challenged the emerging Counterculture of the Sixties ..."
• Summer of Love
• Folsom Street in the 1970s - From Planet SOMA
• San Francisco History Timeline 1950-Present

• Alcatraz Island - by Craig Glassner of the National Park Service

• Ex Post Facto - produced by students of the History Department at SFSU
• Intersections - True Tales from San Francisco - by San Francisco author Andrew Nelson
• Reflections on Black History - by Thomas C. Fleming ...co-founded the Sun-Reporter (San Francisco's African American weekly) in 1944.

• Saint Francis of Assisi [1182-1226] - co-founder of the Franciscan Order, and namesake for the city
• Lola Montez (1818-1861) - dancer, entertainer
• Joshua A. Norton [1819-1880] - Emperor [Archives]
• Mark Twain's San Francisco [1835-1910]
• Black Bart, THE PLUNDERING Po8
• Bret Harte (1836-1902) - Writer
• Lotta Crabtree (1847-1924) - dancer, entertainer
• William Randolph Hearst [1863-1951] - publisher
• Arnold Genthe [1869-1942] - photographer
• Jack London [1876-1916] - Writer, journalist
• Ansel Adams [1902-1984] - photographer
• William Burroughs [1914-1997] - writer, thinker
• Joe DiMaggio [1914-1999] - baseball player
• Herb Caen [1916-1997] - columnist
• Wilfred Sätty [1939-1982] - artist

• City of Kooks? - Notable San Francisco Eccentrics ... Among the most cherished of San Francisco institutions are its weirdoes -- er -- eccentrics.
• San Francisco People

• Panoramic Maps Collection - Library of Congress [San Francisco]
• Historic Ttopographic Maps of the Bay Area - quadrangles produced by the U.S. Geological Survey between 1895 to the present.
• SF Bay Maps and Views
• San Francisco Maps from the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
• SF Historical Maps

  Images ...

• Browse the San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection - SFPL.org
• America Hurrah!
• Fireman's Fund Image Bank: San Francisco History - nice job!
• Panama-Pacific International Exposition [sfmuseum.org]
• Muybridge Panorama of San Francisco, 1878
• Cliff House Project

• San Francisco--Home Page - Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916 [Library of Congress]

• Growth of San Francisco 1853-1970 - maps

• San Francisco History Center - 6th floor SF Public Library, 100 Larkin Street
• California Historical Society - 678 Mission Street
• San Francisco Fire Department Museum
• Bancroft Library - UC Berkeley.
• Japanese Town Archives
• The Maritime Heritage Project - dedicated to preserving California's shipping history from the 1850s to the turn of the Century.

• American Memory - at the Library of Congress
• ROOTS-L California - a mailing list for people who are interested in any or all aspects of genealogy with links to local history pages

• history - list of organizations from the Bay Area Progressive Directory
• SF History @ Google

1. San Francisco's Lost Landmarks by James R. Smith, 2005. [amazon] www.historysmith.com
2. Murder By the Bay: Historic Homicide In and About the City Of San Francisco, by Charles F. Adams 2005. [amazon]
3. San Francisco, You're History! : A Chronicle of the Politicians, Proselytizers, Paramours, and Performers Who Helped Create California's Wildest City, by J. Kingston Pierce [amazon] Chapters online:
   • THE MAGICIAN OF SAN FRANCISCO - William Ralston’s grand-scale ambitions
   • THE PLUNDERING Po8 - What Black Bart lacked as a rhymer ...
   • PROMISE UNKEPT - Bret Harte - once the golden boy of San Francisco letters
   • LOTTA'S LEGACY
4. Chinese Playground : A Memoir - by Bill Lee - The book details Lee's upbringing in S.F. Chinatown and includes a detailed account of the Asian gang war that erupted with the 1977 Golden Dragon Massacre.
5. San Francisco Confidential : Tales of Scandal and Excess from the Town That's Seen Everything, by Raymond Mungo (1995) [amazon]
6. Historic San Francisco : A Concise History and Guide, by Rand Richards, (1991) [amazon]
7. A Short History of San Francisco , by Tom Cole, (1988) amazon
8. Reclaiming San Francisco : History, Politics, Culture : A City Lights Anthology, Edited by James Brook, Chris Carlsson, Nancy J. Peters (1998) [amazon] See: Shaping San Francisco
9. A Terrible Anger : The 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes in San Francisco, by David F. Selvin, amazon, review
10. San Francisco Almanac : Everything You Want to Know About Everyone's Favorite City, by Gladys C. Hansen, (1995)
11. San Francisco's Famous Sea Lions - by Kat Shehata (2002) amazon - www.angelbea.com - Reading level: Ages 9-12
12. The History of Alta California : A Memoir of Mexican California, by Antonio Maria Osio et al, (1996) [amazon]

    See also:
    Selected Annotated Bibliography @Library of Congress
    
    For full texts of Annals of San Francisco [1855], Barbary Coast [1933], Beginnings of San Francisco [1912], Fantastic City [1932], My Own Story [1919], Seventy-five Years in California [1929] and Yerba Buena Island [1936] - see Ron Filion's SF History.

• The Ancient World Web
• Conventional Wisdom - History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
• An Examination of Cycles in American History - by Bill Murray
• spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk - A well done educational history site