The American West
Includes many historical documents
Alcatraz Island's official website
Angel Island's official website
Japanese American Internment Exhibit and Access Project
A former Japanese-American Internment Camp
Comprehensive information on topics relating to Native American history
Includes historical information and links to sites that cover every possible overland trail route
PBS's "The West" website
PBS site on Japanese-American internment
San Francisco's Virtual Museum
Includes links to Bay Area and California historical topics
San Francisco's "history index" website
The Journals of Lewis and Clark
National Geographic's Lewis and Clark Website
The Library of Congress' "Northern Great Plains" website
The Library of Congress' "Map of National Parks" website
The Library of Congress' "Trail to Utah and the Pacific" website
Includes letters, diaries and other primary sources mapping out the lives of emigrants on the overland trail
The Library of Congress' "California as I saw it!" website
Includes testimonials about early settlers' experiences in California
The Library of Congress' "Evolution of the Conservation Movement" website
U.C. Berkeley's Oral History Project on Jeannette Rankin
Suffragist from Montana, first woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
U.C. Berkeley's Oral History Project on Mabel Vemon
Prominent western suffrage organizer for the National Woman's Party
University of Utah's "Japanese American Internment" website
Includes photography exhibits
For additional information on the history of San Francisco, visit the Bay Area Literature page. You will find extensive information on San Francisco's Gold Rush connections, Native American history, and the impact of immigration in the Bay Area.
Promised Land: Western Religious History
A Journal of African American Religious History
American Indians of the Northwest Pacific Region
American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in 1,000 A.D. to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later.
Rudo Ensayo: A Description of Sonora and Arizona in 1764
Offers readers a fascinating glimpse into the people, events and history of the Pacific Northwest