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
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 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
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