This collection consists of the full texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history through eyewitness accounts. The essay "From Gold Rush to Golden State" discusses Chinese immigration to California in the second half of the nineteenth century. Although there are no first-person memoirs of the Chinese experience in nineteenth-century California known to survive, you can search this collection to find references to Chinese immigrants from this time period.

This site features 341 motion pictures, 81 disc sound recordings, and other related materials, such as photographs and original magazine articles.

This site allows you to search and view millions of historic American newspaper pages. Search this collection to find hundreds of newspaper articles about the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Meeting of Frontiers is a project, originally funded by the United States Congress, devoted to the theme of the exploration and settlement of the American West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.

The Printed Ephemera collection comprises 28,000 primary-source items dating from the seventeenth century to the present and encompasses key events and eras in American history.