Buck Institute
Buck Institute for Education: Pblu: The 22nd California Mission
When fourth graders are required to learn their state history, this California teacher takes it across the curriculum implementing a project-based learning unit highlighting the Spanish Mission Era of California in the 18th and 19th...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Spanish Missions of California
Students can use this page as a jumping off page to do research on Spanish missions in California. There are numerous links to Scholastic articles and to other websites on subtopics such as missionaries, Franciscans and places in...
Mission Tour
Mission Tour: Virtual Tour of California Missions: Secularization
This website tells about the emergence of secularization of Spanish California, which resulted in the decline of the missions.
Library of Congress
Loc: California as I Saw It: First Person Narratives, 1849 1900
The Library of Congress makes available these eyewitness accounts of California's history from 1849 to 1900.
Museum of the City of San Francisco
Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco: California Before Gold Discovery
From the "Century" magazine, an article from 1890 by James Bidwell who came to California in 1841.
Mission Tour
Mission Tour: A Virtual Tour of the California Missions: Chumash
A brief description of the culture of the Chumash. Read about their canoes, houses, and understanding of astronomy.
Digital History
Digital History: Impact of the Mexican Revolution
Seee how Mexico's independence from Spain affected not only the Mexicans who lived in California, but also the native population, and the white Americans.