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California History

You search for information on California History can include books, periodical articles, online databases and authoritative Internet resources.

Books

Use the Library Catalog to find books available in the Cerritos College Library. You can search for books by author, title, subject, or keyword. Listed below are some Library of Congress Subject Headings used in the catalog for books relating to California History.

The general call number for books relating California History is F860 - F870.

Add any of these selected subtopics to your main subject California.

For example,  California Southern History

CIVILIZATION
ETHNIC RELATIONS
 PICTORIAL WORKS
CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY
GOLD DISCOVERIES
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL
HISTORY
 RACE RELATIONS
ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
LOS ANGELES
SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS
 EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION
NORTHERN
SOUTHERN

Reference Books

Listed below are some Reference Books that may be useful in your research.

Atlas of California
Atlas Case in REF G1525 .A8 1979

Encyclopedia of the American West
 REF F591 .E485 1996

California A to Z
REF F860 .C34 2000

Guide to the History of California
REF Z1261 .G85 1989

California Biographical Dictionary
REF CT225 .C35 1994

Historic Spots in California
REF F862 .H57 2002

California Gold Camps

REF  F865 .G82 1975

Atlas of the Biodiversity of California
REF QH76.5 .C2 2003

California Missions: A Pictorial History

REF F862 .C17 1979

Missions of California
REF F862 .L53 1988

California Trivia
REF F861.5 .P67 1998

New Encyclopedia of the American West

REF F591 .N46 1998

Chronology and Documentary Handbook of the State of California
REF F861 .C5

Pacific Region: Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures
REF F851 .P1955 2004

Companion to California
REF F859 .H33

Understanding the Riots: Los Angeles Before and After the Rodney King Case
REF F869 .L89 N4 1992

Constitution of the State of California
REF JK8725 1965 .A6

Profiles of California
REF F859.3 .P76 2007

Magazine and Newspaper Articles

Journals and magazines usually provide the most current information on a topic. Journal articles are more scholarly or professional while magazine articles tend to be shorter and more general. Newspaper articles, while not usually scholarly or professional, can give you the most current news and some additional facts on your topic.

To find articles on your topic, use one of the online databases listed below. These databases usually provide full-text articles on almost every topic. Use subject headings or key words that are similar to those used to locate books.

EBSCOhost
 NewsBank
Proquest Databases  - Gender Watch, Ethnic News Watch, and Newspapers

Gale Databases  - Discovering Collection, Gale Virtual Reference Library

Facts.com

In the First Person
 Project Muse
RAND California


For remote access to the library databases, login via MyLibrary.

For historical research, the Library also has print indexes that must be used to find older articles, generally anything published before 1975.

Internet Sites

The Internet can be a valuable source for supplementing the information you have gathered from books and periodicals. It is important that you evaluate the information you get from the Internet to determine if it is reliable and useful to your research. A few Internet sites that may be useful are listed here.

Counting California

LearnCalifornia.org

California Environment

Yahoo Directory - California

Five Views: An Ethnic Historic Site Survey for California

California Government : Welcome to the State of California

 

 

 

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