Jump to Bay Area or General History Resources

Exhibits of Local History:

• Japanese American Internment
• California Historical Society ...
  • The Origin of Streetnames in San Francisco's South of Market
  • SOMA-Gold Rush to 1906
• The Digger Archives (1966-1968) and beyond
• Exploratorium ...
  • The Palace of Fine Arts - a brief history
  • Filling the Marina
• The Museum of the City of San Francisco ...
  • San Francisco history by subject and year
  • From the 1820s to the Gold Rush
• Ex Post Facto - from the SFSU History Students Association
  • The 1907 San Francisco Streetcar Strike - by Robert Emery Bionaz
  • San Francisco's Liberal Network in the 30s - by David A. Diepenbrock
• Sierra Club History
• Tales from Colma - San Francisco cemetery history
• stories from history and this day in WF's history - at Wells Fargo
• San Francisco History - Books - Film - People - Rough Guide
• California History Forum - at KQED - Chinese - Transportation - Biographies - Mission District
• Playland at the Beach - torn down in 1972
• Unofficial Market Street Railway - routes and history
• California State Historical Landmarks - San Francisco County
• Historical Seismicity in the San Francisco Bay Area

  Neighboring areas ...

• A Brief History of Napa Valley - from the Napa Valley Vintners Association
• History of Cal Berkeley - by Scott T.S. Trimble
• Pt. Reyes National Seashore Fire
• The Burlingame Historical Society

  Bibliography

• Bibliography of Books about San Francisco
• Early Films of San Francisco
• Books - Rough Guide

  San Francisco Bay Area History Resources

• Bancroft Library - at the University of California, Berkeley.
• The California Historical Society - at 678 Mission Street
• Computer History Association of California
• The Golden Gate Railroad Museum - railroad history of the Bay Area
• History of Silicon Valley and the Technology Behind It
• The Japanese American History Archives
• The Museum of the City of San Francisco
  Includes: Subject Index and Biographies
• National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
• San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park - Historic Documents Collections and Maritime Library
• San Francisco State University History Department
• SFSU Gateway to History and History Students' Association

  Genealogy

• San Francisco County Genealogy
• Marin County Genealogical Society

  Directories of local historical sources

• San Francisco County Historical Agencies - at the California Historical Society
• San Francisco History Resources - Bay Guardian article - Oct 2, 1996
• Bay Area History Sources - by Cheetham
• Yahoo! - Community:History - at Yahoo San Francisco Bay Area
• A list of California Historical Societies - By James Stevenson
• Also search Local Media Resouces

  General History Resources:

• General History Resources - at the San Francisco Public Library
• Images From the History of the Public Health Service - A Photographic Exhibit
• Historical Essays and Archival Resources from the American Studies Web
• The Best History Sites - (Montgomery County Public Schools)
• American History, from the colonial period until Modern Times
• An Illuminati Outline of History
• Eighteenth-Century Resources on the Net - by Jack Lynch.
• Los Angeles GRIM Society - An off-beat historical preservation society dedicated to the less savory aspects of the history of Los Angeles, CA.
• The History Computerization Project - Malibu, CA
• The Library of Congress American Memory Project
• Internet Resources for Heritage Conservation, Historic Preservation, and Archeology - maintained by the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, National Park Service.

  More ...

• The Ancient World Web: The Ultimate Index of All Things Ancient
• Index - History - WWW Virtual Library
• Index - WWW services for historians
• Yahoo! - Arts:Humanities:History

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