University of California: Calisphere: Great Depression: Dust Bowl Migration

To better understand the migrant experience during the Great Depression, pupils analyze two primary resources: photographs by Dorothea Lange and a U.S. Map that shows the Dust Bowl. They compare and contrast Lange's images to Steinbeck's...

How do you create equality in education? Viewers examine the case University of California vs. Bakke to learn about the issues of affirmative action in the college admission process. They see how the case relates to the 14th Amendment...

Original photographs highlight the General Strike of San Francisco in 1934.

Original photographs highlight the New Deal programs intended to aid families and individuals during the Great Depression.

Images and informational text from which students explore the architecture, people and impact of California missions from 1780 to the present.

Primary source photographs portray the issues and history surrounding the Watts Riots of California, and how the community came together.

This comprehensive and well-organized resource walks students through the Great Depression using concise summaries, pictures, and many primary source documents.

Primary source images and informational text highlight the diverse population found in mid 19th century California.

Collection of photos and drawings depicting early California elite and maps of land use from which students can learn about the transformation of the California economy and its political and cultural development in the 1800s.

Primary source images depicting the rapid growth of small settlements into big cities as people continued to come to California from all over the world during the Gold Rush.