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Social Studies Development Center California Mission Studies Association CMSA is devoted to expanding knowledge of early California history, specifically the era of the 21 missions, the asistencias, ranchos, presidios, and adobes. History in Music Lyrics and MIDI files of and details about songs in U.S. history from the American Revolution to the labor movement to the Viet Nam era. WestWeb: Western History Resource Collections of primary and secondary documents, biographical and bibliographical resources, lists of links to other sites of interest, and images are provided on topics ranging from transportation, to gender and sexuality, to Asian-Americans, to military history, all in the context of the American West. www.indiana.edu /~ssdc/histlinks.htm   (4530 words)

California Indian History The Modocs spectacular 1872 resistance to removal to the Oregon territory was the last heroic military defense of native sovereignty in 19th century California Indian History. Despite entering the union as a free state in 1850, the California legislature rapidly enacted a series of laws legalizing Indian slavery. Alta California the poorly managed and badly neglected stepchild of Mexico was rapidly overwhelmed by a combination of aggressive Indian raids and the arrival of United States Army, Navy and Marine forces in the summer of 1846. ceres.ca.gov /nahc/califindian.html   (8338 words)

History Department - California State University Bakersfield The history of Japan from the earliest times to the beginning of the nineteenth century, focusing on religion, politics, economic development, social trends and elements of the history of ideas. The political, social, and economic history of China from the establishment of the People's Republic to the present including the Great Leap Forward, the Sino-Soviet Split, the Cultural Revolution, the Rise and Fall of the "Gang of Four," and the Four Modernizations under Deng Xiao-ping. All major aspects of Japanese history since 1800, including politics, economic trends, sociocultural and intellectual changes, and foreign relations. www.csubak.edu /history/updiv400.htx   (1370 words)

U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office Official Website We trace our history back to 4 August 1790, when the first Congress authorized the construction of ten vessels to enforce tariff and trade laws, prevent smuggling, and protect the collection of the federal revenue. We have continued to protect the nation throughout our long history and have served proudly in every one of the nation's conflicts. We were also given the responsibility to protect the marine environment, explore and police Alaska, and chart the growing nation's coastlines, all well before the turn of the twentieth century. www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/collect.html   (401 words)

Digital History Leon Litwack, the Morrison Professor of American History at the University of California at Berkeley, assesses the frequency of flight from slavery, the forms that this took, and the motives that precipitated flight. Links to documents, images, chronologies, and articles related to the California Gold Rush created by the Museum of the City of San Francisco. Information on Franklin’s life, his family life, and his place in the history of science, created by the Franklin Institute. www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /historyonline/annot_links_list.cfm   (401 words)

Timeline: The United States Compromise of 1850 admits California as free state, eliminates slave trade in District of Columbia, establishes Utah and New Mexico without restrictions on slavery, and requires return of fugitive slaves. February, seceding states establish government of the Confederate States of America and create constitution endorsing slavery but prohibiting slave trade. Eventually, Missouri is admitted as a slave state, balanced by the admission of Maine as a free state. amistad.mysticseaport.org /timeline/united.states.html   (401 words)

Timeline: The United States Compromise of 1850 admits California as free state, eliminates slave trade in District of Columbia, establishes Utah and New Mexico without restrictions on slavery, and requires return of fugitive slaves. February, seceding states establish government of the Confederate States of America and create constitution endorsing slavery but prohibiting slave trade. Eventually, Missouri is admitted as a slave state, balanced by the admission of Maine as a free state. amistad.mysticseaport.org /timeline/united.states.html   (1956 words)

Internet African History Sourcebook The pope gives a history of slavery in the modern period, condemns Muslim slavery and condones anti-slavery activity by popes. These are full descriptions of the countries concerned, in terms of history, geography, economy, etc. There are also useful bibliographies. On this site historical sources on the history of human societies in the continent of Africa are presented, when available, without making prejudgements about what is "African". www.fordham.edu /halsall/africa/africasbook.html   (4137 words)

Welcome to Sutter Creek, California - History Wrote John Bidwell, who led the first organized party of settlers to California in 1841, wrote of Sutter that "he was one of the most liberal and hospitable of men." It should be noted that Bidwell later worked for Sutter. Contemporary observers at Sutter's Fort claimed that Sutter resorted to slavery, denial of food and kidnapping to force Indians to work for him. 'The Capt. [Sutter] keeps 600 to 800 Indians in a complete state of Slavery and as I had the mortification of seeing them dine I may give a short description. www.ci.sutter-creek.ca.us /history2.html   (1340 words)

Digital History Leon Litwack, the Morrison Professor of American History at the University of California at Berkeley, assesses the frequency of flight from slavery, the forms that this took, and the motives that precipitated flight. Links to documents, images, chronologies, and articles related to the California Gold Rush created by the Museum of the City of San Francisco. This site contains a history of the Mayflower, representations of the ship, documents related to the ship’s voyage, and information about the passengers’ wills. www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /historyonline/annot_links_list.cfm   (3432 words)

Antislavery Literature: Contemporary Slavery and Antislavery Resources Hosted by the History Department of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam and the National Institute for the Study of Dutch Slavery and its Legacy. A 2004 report from the Human Rights Center at University of California - Berkeley and the Free the Slaves organization, concerning contemporary trafficking and slavery in the United States. A digital project in the history of Caribbean slavery, produced by the Barbados Museum and Historical Society and sponsored by UNESCO. antislavery.eserver.org /contemporary   (3432 words)

Look-4-it: HISTORY Millikan's School A History of the California Institute of Technology; Goodstein, Judith R. Triumphs and Tragedy A History of the Mexican People; Ruiz, Ramon Eduardo (Professor of History, University of California, San Diego, USA) From Slavery to Freedom Comparative Studies in the Rise and Fall of Atlantic Slavery; Drescher, Seymour (Professor of History and Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, USA) Pope Urban II, the "Collectio Britannica", and the Council of Melfi (1089) Somerville, Robert (Professor of Religion and History, Columbia University, New York, USA);Kuttner, Stephan (Professor Emeritus of Law, University of California, Berkeley, Stations of the Sun; A History of the Ritual Year in Britain; Hutton, Ronald book.look-4-it.com /History   (13668 words)

Environmental History Study Guide Video & Films Films emphasize the environmental history, nature, and ecology of various North American regions, how Indians used the land and its resources, the impact on the land by Europeans since Columbus, slavery, and the conservation and environmental movements. Attitudes and relationship of the California Indians to the redwoods; Gold Rush, growth of California, and the cutting of 95 percent of the redwoods by 1989; history of conservation efforts over the past century to protect the redwood forests. Films are coordinated with the chapters in Major Problems in American Environmental History and illustrate the themes of the text. www.cnr.berkeley.edu /departments/espm/env-hist/studyguide/video.htm   (692 words)

Perseus Table of Contents She describes her experiences as a farmer, the position of women in California, mining life, the history of the Donner Expedition based on interviews with survivors, and the 1856 San Francisco Vigilance Committee. California notes (1876) is a guide for travellers, offering details of the state's weather, geology, and vegetation as well as recommended travel routes, historical notes, business statistics, and sightseeing tips for visitors to San Francisco, Stockton, Calaveras County and its mammoth trees and caves, the gold mining district, and the Yosemite Valley. California as I saw it; pencillings by the way of its gold and gold diggers, and incidents of travel by land and water. www.perseus.tufts.edu /cgi-bin/perscoll?collection=Perseus:collection:AmMem-calbk   (14146 words)

AllRefer.com - California, California (CA) - (state) - Facts and Information In 1849, California (CA)ns sought statehood and, after heated debate in the U.S. Congress arising out of the slavery issue, Calif. entered the Union as a free, nonslavery state by the Compromise of 1850. That was at first enthusiastically endorsed by Californians, but after a slump in the state's shaky economy, the white settlers viewed the influx of the lower-paid Chin. Among the state's more prominent institutions of higher learning are the Univ. of Calif., with 9 campuses; Calif. State Univ., with 12 campuses; Occidental Col. and the Univ. of Southern Calif., at Los Angeles; Stanford Univ., at Palo Alto; the Calif. Inst. reference.allrefer.com /gazetteer/C/C00776-california.html   (2500 words)

Perseus Table of Contents She describes her experiences as a farmer, the position of women in California, mining life, the history of the Donner Expedition based on interviews with survivors, and the 1856 San Francisco Vigilance Committee. California notes (1876) is a guide for travellers, offering details of the state's weather, geology, and vegetation as well as recommended travel routes, historical notes, business statistics, and sightseeing tips for visitors to San Francisco, Stockton, Calaveras County and its mammoth trees and caves, the gold mining district, and the Yosemite Valley. California as I saw it; pencillings by the way of its gold and gold diggers, and incidents of travel by land and water. www.perseus.tufts.edu /cgi-bin/perscoll?collection=Perseus:collection:AmMem-calbk   (14146 words)

History of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This period of United States history saw the breakdown of the ability of white Americans of the North and South to reconcile fundamental differences in their approach to government, economics, society and African American slavery. Spain claimed or controlled a large part of the central and western United States as part of New Spain which included Spanish Florida, California and Texas. However, Reconstruction and its failure left the Southern whites in a position of firm control over its black population, denying them their Civil Rights and keeping them in a state of economic, social and political servitude. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_the_United_States   (4302 words)

Peter Sahlins, Co-Director of the ACLS-CRN Identifications project, is Professor of History at the University of California at Her current research focuses on processes of political identification in the French Caribbean, from the19th century to the present (the crossing over from slavery to citizenship and the relationship with successive French Republics) as well as challenges of new identifications and legal membership (French, Caribbean, European, departmental, regional…). His research interests are centered around 20th century France, focusing on labor, urban, and colonial/postcolonial history, and the history of race. This work will be situated at the intersection of cultural, institutional and political history. socrates.berkeley.edu /~sahlins/mparticipants.htm   (1913 words)

The California Pomo People, Brief History -- Native American Art Slavery was illegal in California after the U.S. acquired it by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, that ended the U.S. war with Mexico in 1848. It is well-known that the Mexican-Spanish establishd a string of missions along the California coast in the early 18th century. About 2/3 of all California Indians were killed off in less than 100 years of this, from European diseases and hard labor. www.kstrom.net /isk/art/basket/pomohist.html   (4723 words)

San Diego History in the United States with those of a free African American in the West (8.7.4) Discuss Mexican settlements in California, their economies, political structure and attitudes toward slavery (8.8.5... acacias along El Prado, the walkways behind buildings, the clearing north of the California Building, the lawn behind Montezuma Gardens; the Neo Classical style pergolas in the Montezuma and Botanic Gardens... The presence of long reflecting pools in the Plaza de Panama which captured and inverted the images of nearby buildings must have... search.blossom.com /query/207/log?key=black   (4723 words)

California -> History on Encyclopedia.com 2002 In 1849, Californians sought statehood and, after heated debate in the U.S. Congress arising out of the slavery issue, California entered the Union as a free, nonslavery state by the Compromise of 1850. In late 2000, California began experiencing an electricity crisis as insufficient generating capacity and increasing short-term wholesale prices for power squeezed the state's two largest public utilities, who, under the “deregulation” plan they had agreed to in the early 1990s, were not allowed to pass along their increased costs. The first voyage (1542) to Alta California (Upper California), as the region north of Baja California (Lower California) came to be known, was commanded by the Spanish explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, who explored San Diego Bay and the area farther north along the coast. www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/calif_history.asp   (4723 words)

Pulitzer Prize-winning history Professor Don E. Fehrenbacher dies (12/97) Fehrenbacher also published A Basic History of California in 1964, The Era of Expansion, 1800-1848 in 1969, and several books as well as many scholarly articles on 19th-century American history. Fehrenbacher was in the middle of his largest study yet, a constitutional history of slavery, at the time of his death. It was a measure of Fehrenbacher's breadth of scholarship on the history of the 19th century that David Potter had asked him to complete his unfinished magnum opus on the coming of the Civil War, Degler said. www.stanford.edu /dept/news/pr/97/971218fehrenbach.html   (581 words)

Slavery in America The distribution of African place names throughout the American South is a testament to the lasting influence of a people, their cultural history, and legacy. The maps picture the U.S. southern states in which slavery survived as the basic institution of life after 1830, representing the Bantu place names for which there is historical and linguistic evidence. These place names are widely distributed along coastal areas and rivers, at ports of entry, and in population centers. www.slaveryinamerica.org /history/hs_es_placenames_ms.htm   (581 words)

Internet African History Sourcebook Catholicae Ecclesiae (On Slavery in The Missions), 1890. An Orthodox mission society based in South Africa, whose aim is to encourage Orthodox Christians to participate in the global mission of the Church. A project looking at the events of the European land grab after 1881. www.fordham.edu /halsall/africa/africasbook.html   (581 words)

HAWKS: Black History Month 2004 - Recommended Reading List The following list of books about the African-American experience includes picture books, biographies, fiction and nonfiction, for young readers through young adults, covering slavery, the history of the civil rights movement, notable African-American men and women, and what it means to be black in America. The authors provide a history of the enslaved and free people of African origins who came to New York from many parts of the world in these centuries. By accessing any information beyond this page, you agree to abide by the NBA.com Privacy Policy / Your California Privacy Rights and Terms of Use. www.nba.com /hawks/community/BHM2004_ReadingList.html   (1762 words)

SLU: African American Review - Announcements - The people and issues the show turned its lens on through the years tell, in capsule form, the history of both Black America and the city of Boston from the Civil Rights movement through the era of Black Power and the significant increase of numbers in the Black middle class. JUNETEENTH effectively conveys the jubilation that occurred on June 19, 1865 when African American people in Texas were the last to be freed from the horrors of U.S. slavery, a full two months after the end of the Civil War and two and a half years after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. James Baldwin–Down From The Mountaintop, a new one-man play written and performed by Tony Award nominee Calvin Levels, recently finished a run in Los Angeles playing to general audiences, students and professors. aar.slu.edu /announce.html   (1762 words)

Historians in Defense of the Constitution: Signatories Page 2 Margaret Goodart, California State University, Sacramento, Professor of History in American Women's History, Civil War, teaching History of American Women, Seminar in Recent Interpretations of American History, Reading Seminar in U.S.History. Interests: Jacksonian, antebellum, and Civil War eras; American political history; documentary editing, teaches courses, on Jacksonian and Civil War eras, Old South and slavery, American politics from the Constitution to the present. Heide Fehrenbach, Emory University, recently appointed Associate Professor of history, teaching modern German history, modern European cultural history, film, gender, scheduled Colloquium on National Socialism on Film (Spring 1999), Fehrenbach comes to Emory from a tenured position (Associate Professor of History) at Colgate University teaching history of modern Germany, cinema, modern cultural and intellectual history. vikingphoenix.com /public/rongstad/history/400historians/400page2.htm   (1762 words)

FBC- Dale Tomich, CV "The Crisis of Sugar Production in the Dissolution of Slavery in Nineteenth  Century Martinique," presented at the Annual Meeting of the American  Historical Association, Los Angeles, California, December 28, 1981. "The Second Slavery: Cuba in the Nineteenth Century World Division of Labor, 1760-1868," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Washington, D.C., November 19, 1989. "Theory, Method, and the History of Slavery:  Forces and Relations of Production," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Nashville, Tennessee, March 17, 1988. fbc.binghamton.edu /dtcv.htm   (1762 words)

Association of Black Women Historians Officer Biographies Daina Ramey Berry is an Assistant Professor of History at Michigan State University where she teaches 19th century American and African American History, Slavery, and Women’s History courses. She is currently revising a book manuscript entitled, Repression Breeds Resistance: The Rise and Fall of the Black Panther Party in Oakland,California 1966-1982, for publication. Professor Spencer's research interests are African American history, Urban History, and Gender. www.abwh.org /mainpages/bios.htm   (830 words)

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