History Research Links

Skyline College
Library

English 100 - Prof. Rachel Bell
"Five Fires" : Researching information on "San Francisco Earthquake in 1906," "The Japanese Americans Internment," and "Riots in Southern California"

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Finding Books
Finding Magazine & Journal Articles
Finding Newspaper Articles
Selected Web Sites

Books:
Reference Books
Searching Libraray Catalog for books

Reference Books (to be used in the Library only)
Topic I. 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
Encyclopedia of the American West
London : Simon & Schuster and Prentice Hall International, c1996.
REF/F591.E485 1996
Note: look under " San Francisco earthquake of 1906" in the index in volume 4.

Topic II. The Internment of Japanese Americans
American decades 1940-1949
Detroit : Gale Research, c1994-
REF/E169.12.A419 1940-1949
Note: look under "Internment of Japanese Americans" in the index.

The Asian American almanac.
Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research, 1995-
REF/E184.O6 A824
Note: look under "Japanese Americans, internment during World War II" in the index.

Civil rights in the United States
REF/E184.A1 C47 2000
New York : Macmillan Reference USA, c2000.
Note: look under "Japanese Americans - internment cases" in the index in volume 2.

Dictionary of Asian American history
New York : Greenwood Press, 1986.
REF/E184.O6 D53 1986
Look under "Internment of Japanese Americans" in the index.

Encyclopedia of the American West
REF/F591.E485 1996
London : Simon & Schuster and Prentice Hall International, c1996.
Note: look under "Japanese Americans, internment during World War II" in the index in volume 4.

Encyclopedia of Japanese American history : an A-to-Z reference from 1868 to the presen
New York : Facts on File, c2001.
REF/E184.J3 E53 2001
Note: look under "internment camps" in the index.

Japanese American history : an A-to-Z reference from 1868 to the present
New York : Facts on File, c1993.
REF/E184.J3 J3355 1993
Note: look under "internment camps" in the index.

Topic III. Riots in Southern California
Historic Documents of 1992
[Washington] Congressional Quarterly, inc.
Ref E839.5.H57 1992
Note: look at p.407 - p.429

Historic Documents of the 1960s
[Washington] Congressional Quarterly, inc.
Ref E841.H58 1999
Note: look at p.389 - p.391

Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history
New York : Macmillan Library Reference, c1996.
REF/E185.E54 1995
Note: look under "Los Angeles Watts riot of 1965," and "Urban riots and rebellions- Los Angeles, Calif." in the index in volume 5.

The sixties in America
REF/E841.S55 1999
Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c1999.
Note: look under "Watts riot" in the index.

Civil rights in the United States
REF/E184.A1 C47 2000
New York : Macmillan Reference USA, c2000.
Note: look under "Riots - Watts uprising,"
or "Watts uprising" in the index in volume 2.

The ABC-CLIO companion to the 1960s counterculture in America
Hamilton, Neil A.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1997.
REF/E169.02.H3515 1997
Note: look under "Watts riots" in the index.

American decades 1960-1969
Detroit : Gale Research, c1994-
REF/E169.12.A419 1960-1969
Note: look under "Watts, Los Angeles riot" in the index.

Searching for books using Library Catalog:
The PLS Online Catalog is the online catalog to find books in Skyline Library and in all libraries in the Peninsula Library Sytem.

When you link to the catalog, click on Library Catalog, then Advanced Search on the left column.
Type in the name of your topic in the search box and click the Search button:
Topic I. 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
San Francisco earthquake? AND (1906 OR 20th century) NOT fiction

Topic II. The Internment of Japanese Americans
Japanese Americans AND (internment world war II OR Evacuation and relocation 1942-1945 ) NOT fiction

Topic III. Riots in Southern California
Riots? Los Angeles NOT fiction
After you retrieve the results, if you wish to limit your search to books at Skyline, click on the Limit button at the bottom of the list and then--in the lower Limiter box-- scroll down to near the bottom and click on Skyline College Library and then click OK.

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Magazine & Journal articles:

Print Indexes:

Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature (available at Reference Collection Index Shelves)
Topic I. 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
Look under "California earthquake, 1906" in the 1905-1909 index.

Topic II. The Internment of Japanese Americans
Look under "Internment camps - United States," and "Japanese in the United States" in the July 1941-June 1943 v.13, July 1943-April 1945 v.14, and May 1945-April 1947 v.15 indexes.

Topic III. Riots in Southern California
Look under "Los Angeles - Negroes" in the March 1965-February 1966 v. 25 index for information regarding Watts riot.

Online Journal Databases:

InfoTrac OneFile Database: excellent general periodical database.
Available from off-campus--as long as you have a library card (library card bar code number is required).

To search only for articles that include the full text (the whole article) in the database, check the "articles with text" box under "Limit the current search" (below the text entry box)

To narrow searches, combine concepts with AND.

Once you find one article specifically on your topic, click on any relevant subject headings (near the bottom of the article page) to find more articles on that topic.

Newspaper articles:

Using New York Times Print Index (in Reference Collection Index Shelves)
Topic I. 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
Look under "Earthquakes-San Francisco devastated" in the July 1905-Dec. 1906 index volume (note: be sure you are in the 1906 section).
Sample entry:

Topic II. The Internment of Japanese Americans
Look under "United States - Foreign Population and Foreign Descent Groups-Enemy aliens," and "United States - Foreign Population and Foreign Descent Groups-Japanese" in the 1942 Ne-Z, 1943 Me-Z, 1944 Mo-Z, and 1945 Me-Z indexes.

Topic III. Riots in Southern California
Look under "Negroes" from p. 647 - 656, section number: 129, 131, 146, 151, 162, 168, 179, 188 in the 1965 index articles regarding Watts riot.
Look under "Los Angeles (Calif.)," "King, Rodney Glen," and "Police" in the 1992 index for articles regarding Rodney King riot.
Sample entry:
Online Newspaper Databases:

Proquest Newpapers database: a database of full-text articles from many of the most important newspapers in the country--New York Times, S. F. Chronicle, S. F. Examiner, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, L. A. Times & Christian Science Monitor--as well as some regional papers from Northern California. Only available from on campus (library or computer labs).
You may use this database to search for Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle articles on Rodney King riot in 1992.

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Recommended Web Sites:
Primary Sources
U.S. History
California History

Primary Sources:

Topic I. 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
American Memory: A Library of Congress Website containing thousands of primary historical sources.

Eye Witness: The San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 Narratives and other first person sources for historical events.

Topic II. The Internment of Japanese Americans
Oral History Online!: Transcripts of oral histories from U.C. Berkeley's Regional Oral History Project in the following subject areas: The Free Speech Movement, Women's Suffrage Movement, Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement, The Earl Warren Oral History Project, and Health Care, Science, and Technology.

U.S. History:
Topic III. Riots in Southern California
Africans in America: "America's journey through slavery is presented in four parts. For each era, you'll find a historical Narrative, a Resource Bank of images, documents, stories, biographies, and commentaries, and a Teacher's Guide for using the content of the Web site and television series in U.S. history courses." PBS Online.

For all three topics
HistoryMatters U.S. History Links: Annotated list of Web sites for U.S. History survey courses.

Topic II. The Internment of Japanese Americans
U. S. Historical Census Data Browser: Data describing the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1790 to 1960.

Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites
An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites

California History
Topic I. 1906 San Francisco Earthquake & Topic II. The Internment of Japanese Americans
California Heritage Digital Image Access Project: Archive containing over 28,000 historical photographs, pictures, and manuscripts from the collections of the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley.

Topic I. 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
Museum of the City of San Francisco:The Great 1906 Earthquake And Fire: Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906, 1989 San Francisco Earthquake, 1991 Oakland-Berkeley Hills Fire, Chronology of S.F. Rock 1965-69, WWII history, Flags of SF, and more. The Biographies section features biographical sketches and/or links to material on about ninety prominent Northern California figures; including John A. Sutter, Lotta Crabtree, Leland Stanford, Levi Strauss, and Joe Di Maggio.
Museum of the City of San Francisco- 1906 Earthquake Photographs

1906 Great Earthquake and Fire - from San Francisco Fire Department.