Days are numbered for San Francisco's Candlestick Park http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2011/12/days-are-numbered-san-franciscos-candlestick-park Santa Clara lines up financing for 49ers stadium http://blog.sfgate.com/49ers/2011/12/03/santa-clara-lines-up-financing-for-49ers-stadium/ 49ers stadium: S.F. mayor has slim...

Gold panners digging up a new income in Mariposa County http://www.mercedsunstar.com/167/story/1131302.html?storylink=omni_popular Gold Panning Instructions http://www.goldgold.com/panninginstructions.htm N.A. Chandler California Gold Rush Era Letters http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/collection.php?alias=/cng Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic...

Snapshot of the US: 65 days in front of the TV and five months of media http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1972530,00.html Media occupies half of Americans’ lives, data from Census shows http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061215/NEWS04/612150354/1024/NEWS04 New homes were cheapest in the South in...

Over the past century or so, the automobile has transformed the American experience in ways that are hard to fully comprehend. This website from the University of Michigan at Dearborn brings together commentary from scholars on the automobile's impact in the areas of environment, design, labor, gender, and race. These commentaries are written by leaders in their fields, including Stephen Meyer,...

In 1964, the University of Idaho Library received a collection of over 200,000 nitrocellulose and glass plate negatives taken by Nellie Stockbridge and one T.N. Barnard. Barnard was the founder of a prominent photo studio in Wallace, Idaho, and he ran the establishment for ten years until 1898, when he sold it to Nellie Stockbridge. Both individuals had a keen interest in the environment around...

In the early 1850s, some Basque people became disillusioned by the pickings in the gold fields of California. A number of them decided to raise sheep instead and spread across the American West. This vast digital collection from the University of Nevada at Reno brings together hundreds of images that document the Basque experience in the West and Europe. The images here include shots of...

How do you tell the story of a state- its history, its culture, its people? It's complicated and this mindful site from the University of Minnesota brings together a ream of wonderful artifacts contributed from a range of exhibits and organizations including the Kautz Family YMCA Archives, the James Ford Bell Library, and the University of Minnesota Archive. The materials here are divided into six...

Beloit College is the oldest college in the state of Wisconsin, and they are well regarded for their study abroad programs and focus on international and global affairs. They have also revamped their online digital collections area, and it is well worth a glance. Currently, they have ten collections here, including "Logan Museum of Anthropology", "Beloit-College, City and Environs", and "Asian...

Since 1935, the Bentley Historical Library has been providing interested parties with timely and insightful materials about both the history of the state of Michigan and the esteemed University of Michigan. Currently, the library includes more than 30,000 linear feet of archives and manuscripts, 60,000 printed volumes, and over one and a half million photographs. Those who might be planning a...

"There's a time when the operating of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part... And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheel, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop!" These words, shouted by the incendiary student leader Mario Savio at a free speech rally at UC-Berkeley in 1964, helped define a...