History and Culture

Databases

Database access from outside the library requires a valid library card and PIN.

Web Links

General History

• American Women's History: A Research Guide
• Biography.com
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

Bakersfield and Kern County History

• Tehachapi Loop

California History

• California Digital Newspaper Collection - Contains over 400,000 pages of significant historical California newspapers published from 1846-1922.
  
  
• University of California Calisphere
• Early California Population Project
• Los Angeles Mapped Exhibit (Library of Congress)
• Gold Fever: The Lure and Legacy of the California Gold Rush
• California Missions Studies Association
• History of California
• Mission San Juan Capistrano
• Online Archive of California
• San Joaquin Valley and Sierra Foothills Photo Heritage

United States History

• The American Civil War Homepage
• American Memory
• American Treasures of the Library of Congress
• From Revolution to Reconstruction: A Hypertext on American History from the colonial period until Modern Times
• Internment of San Francisco Japanese
• Today in History
• Vietnam: Yesterday and Today
• World War I: Trenches on the Web
• World War I Documents Archive
• World War II Documents

World History

• Cybrary of the Holocaust
• Magna Carta

Culture

• African-American History at Historical Text Archive
• The African-American Mosaic
• C-SPAN Book TV
• Hispanic Pages in the United States
• Index of Native American Resources on the Internet
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
• Native Web