SJSU Research Guides: SJSU Special Collections & Archives: California History

Primary Source Databases

Free Speech Movement Digital Archive
Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives (JARDA)
JARDA includes letters, diaries, photographs, art, and transcribed oral histories, and lesson plans related to the history of Japanese Internment during World War II.
S.F State College Strike Collection
This collection includes publications, broadsides, flyers, scrapbooks, student newspapers, and other documents of the 1968-1969 strikes that took place at San Francisco State during the heyday of the social protest movements against the Vietnam war, and the demand for free speech and civil rights
Regional Oral History History Collections
ROHO has one of the largest holdings of oral histories in the U.S., and covers a broad range of subjects, from politics, food and wine, environmental history, disability history, community history, social movements, and medicine and technology art, and business.
Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco
Presents topically a broad range of history spanning early California; Gold Rush; Civil War; 20th Century--Great Depression to the Summer of Love.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers The San Francisco Chronicle This link opens in a new window
Offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. (1865-1922). From Jan 1, 1865 to Aug 31, 1868, known as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle; From Sept 1, 1868 to Aug 14, 1869, known as Daily Morning Chronicle; and from Aug 15, 1869, known as San Francisco Chronicle. Help Guide