History of San Diego
Online Resources at the University of San Diego
- "The University of San Diego: Modern University with a Renaissance Flavor," a short history of USD by Professor Iris Engstrand, published in the summer 1996 Newsletter of the Historical Society of Southern California.
- The Silvas Family: Another Chapter in Old Town History by Kathy Hughart, May 1996.
- The Battle of San Pasqual by Sarah St. Pierre, May 1996.
- San Diego Zoo by Dusty Walton-Brown, May 1998.
- Coronado by Chauncey Adams, May 1998.
- Border Revolution 1910-1920 by Cindy Baxman, May 1998.
- History of Mission Beach by Peter Lubczynski, May 1998.
- Wild Animal Park by Sandy Harriger, May 1999.
- Barrio Logan
- Otay Valley
- National City
- A History of the Marine Corps Recruit Depot 1911-1974
- San Diego Military Bases
- Reuben H. Fleet, founder of Consolidated Aircraft and the Linda Vista WWII housing development
- Maps and Photos of San Diego History
- Old Town
- U. S. Grant Hotel
- Native American Website from Nancy Carol Carter in the USD Legal Resource Center
- Media Milestones at USD
- USD Pictures
- San Diego Disasters
- Padres Baseball and Petco Park
Links Off-Campus:
- San Diego Historical Society
- Naval Air Station North Island
- History of the Navy Submarine Base on Ballast Point
- Marine Corps Recruit Depot Command Museum
- San Diego Aerospace Museum
- San Diego Maritime Museum
- 1936 Olympics Exhibit at San Diego Hall of Champions
- California History links from Contra Costa Historical Society
- California History from James Stevenson Publisher
- Computer Genealogy Society of San Diego (CGSSD)
- California History Outline from Orinda City
- California Labor History Map and Timeline in Shockwave
- California Missions from BGe
- Leo Carillo Ranch in Carlsbad
- Coronado Hotel Service guide to hotels on Coronado
- Digital Atlas of California by Professor William Bowen
- Gold Rush and California postcards from Malakoff & Co. coin dealer
- Railroads in San Diego from Robert Bowdidge
- San Diego Baseball Historical Society sponsored by the Padres
- San Diego city index from Yahoo
- San Diego Photo Gallery from SDIC
- San Diego Source from the Daily Transcript includes Gaslamp map
- San Diego's Chinese Community by Robin Low
- San Diego Chinese Historical Museum
- SignOn San Diego from the Union-Tribune
- The West Film Project biographies of Junipero Serra, Kit Carson, Mariano Vallejo
- "California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900, from the Library of Congress American Memory Historical Collections for the National Digital Library, includes the following texts that describe San Diego:
- A Truthful Woman in Southern California, by Kate Sanborn. 1893. 192 pp.
- A Winter in California, by Mary H. Wills. 1889. 150 pp.
- Beyond the Rockies; a Spring Journey in California, by Charles Augustus Stoddard. 1894. 214 p. front., plates.
- Glimpses of California and the Missions, by Helen Hunt Jackson ... with illustrations by Henry Sandham. 1902. 292 p. incl. front., illus., pl., facsim.
- Our Italy, by Charles Dudley Warner. 1891. 266 p. incl. front., illus., plates.
- Pioneer Notes from the Diaries of Judge Benjamin Hayes, 1849-1875. 307 p. front., plates, ports., map, facsims.
- Panoramic Maps from the Library of Congress American Memory Historical Collections for the National Digital Library, includes a "Bird's eye view of Coronado Beach, San Diego Bay and city of San Diego, Cal. in distance / sketch by E.S. Moore ; Crocker & Co., lith., S.F. c.1880."
- Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920 from the Library of Congress American Memory Historical Collections for the National Digital Library, include 5 photos of San Diego:
- The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 from the Library of Congress American Memory Historical Collections for the National Digital Library, includes the U.S. Statutes at Large, Vol. 40, Part 1, Chap. 76, pp. 1206-09. "An Act Granting to the city of San Diego certain lands in the Cleveland National Forest and the Capitan Grande Indian Reservation for dam and reservoir purposes for the conservation of water, and for other purposes." S. 3646; Public Act No. 306.
- The California Heritage Collection has over 28,000 images of California from the collections of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley
- 1910 Air Meet in Los Angeles, from Cal Poly Dominguez Hills, with pictures of the Curtiss biplane and a video of Curtiss preparing for takeoff.
- "Old Town San Diego State Historic Park: Reconstruction Archeology at the Silvas-McCoy Site" (A paper presented at the 1997 Annual Meeting of the Society for California Archaeology, Santa Rosa) by David L. Felton and Regina M. George, California Department of Parks and Recreation, 2505 Port Street, West Sacramento, CA 95691.
Revised 5/1/08 by Schoenherr | USD History Department | reserve
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