California History Research Paper Links

  

Los Angeles Times (1886-1986) (ProQuest Historical Online Database)

Los Angeles Times (1987-1996)

 

Off Campus Access (click here to begin off campus access. You will need to set up a pin number and use your Red ID to access it. Be sure to use the Historical Research LA Times database)

 

Paper Topic 2: Hetch Hetchy Dam Controversy

The Hetch Hetchy Valley by John Muir (Sierra Club Bulletin, January, 1908)

The Hetch-Hetchy Situation - 1914 Editorial by William F. Badè

Letter from William Colby of the Sierra Club

A HIGH PRICE TO PAY FOR WATER

Restore Hetch Hetchy - Testimony by Robert Underwood Johnson

What the Press Thinks about the damning of Hetch Hetchy

San Francisco Wants Water Power at the Expense of the Nation

Statement of Hon. John E. Raker, A Representative in Congress From California

Statement of Hon. Alexander T. Vogelsang, of San Francisco,CA Supervisor, City and County of San Francisco

Statement of Secretary of the Interior, James Garfield

Statement of Mr. Richard B. Watrous of Washington D.C., Secretary of the American Civic Association

Statement of Hon. William Kent, Representative in Congress from California

Pinchot on Hetch Hetchy

 

Paper Topic 6: Gold Rush California

Gold and Sunshine by James J. Ayers, Ch. III-XI

Golden Dreams and Waking Realities by William Shaw, Ch. III-VII