California Parks offer free virtual field trips to CA students and teachers, with units of study in science, history and language arts. Using park resources and live interactive presentations, kids learn about the art of ancient Greeks and Romans at…
From site: On January 24, 1848 James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill, touching off the California gold rush. On the 150th anniversary of Marshall’s discovery, the Oakland Museum of California unveiled a series of exhibitions titled Gold Rush! California’s…
From site: “California as I Saw It:” First-Person Narratives of California’s Early Years, 1849-1900 consists of the full texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California’s history through eyewitness accounts. The collection covers the dramatic decades…
This site has a good section on historic San Francisco earthquakes, including the 1906 quake, as well as more general information on California history. California history topics include governors, the state flag, Spanish missions, the state constitution, the gold rush,…
From site: Calisphere is the University of California’s free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other…