new online California History resource for educators

[Lisa Schiff <sflschiff@yahoo.com>]

Hi Everyone,

The place where I work, the California Digital Library of the University of California, has launched a new website called Calisphere, which contains California historical and culteral hertiage content geared towards providing educators with primary source material aligned with California's educational standards.  

I think it's a really useful site, so wanted to pass it on.  Below is a more detailed blurb about it.

Thanks,

Lisa
Lisa Schiff
public school parent, McKinley Elementary, San Francisco

Calisphere is a new University of California web site, available at www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu . This free web site offers educators, students, and the public access to more than 150,000 images, documents, and other primary source materials from the libraries
and museums
 of the UC campuses and cultural heritage organizations across California.  Calisphere's primary sources include photographs, documents, newspapers, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other cultural artifacts
that reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history. The site also provides a single entry point to more than 300 UC-created web sites on a wide variety of subjects.
 
 
 
The web site's special features include: 
 
**Themed Collections: Primary source materials are organized into historical eras, from the Gold Rush to the 1970s, and aligned with California Content Standards. 
 
**California Cultures: California's multicultural heritage is revealed through photographs and documents relating to African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native Americans.
 
**Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives: More than 10,000 personal and official images and documents bring educators inside the story of Japanese-American internment during World War II.
 
 
 
Please contact Rosalie Lack at rosalie.lack@ucop.edu, if you have any questions. 

 		
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