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State Spotlight: California

May 7, 2014 by PSN 1 Comment

Last Updated on December 16, 2020

California stories from America’s Library

California primary source set with teacher’s guide

California resource guide

Curated collections

Library collections

California as I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California’s Early Years, 1849-1900
California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties
Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
Voices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941

More California primary source collections

Teaching resources related to California

Featured Source: The Way They Go to California guided primary source analysis
Learning from the Source: Zooming into Documentary Photography
Learning from the Source: Media & Migrant Laborer Perspectives

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