California Government, History and Culture Resources
Government Resources
- The California Initiative Process
- The Sacramento Bee explores the California Initiative Process, and electoral method by which California citizens vote of propositions to enact laws. This is a ver thorough and well researched series that goes a long way toward explaining this distinctive process.
- California
- California, a view from the Governor's office.
- Your Government - A Guide to California Officials, Agencies & Laws
- An "official" list of California Web Pages of state agencies elected officials, and departments, etc.
- California Government Information
- Your tax dollars at work in Cyberspace, organized by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
- The California Senate
- Information about the people and their work: The California State Senate. This WWW server is maintained by the California State Senate, Rules Committee -- Computer Services, serving Senators, senate staff and the public.
- The California Assembly
- Get the information straight from the source: The California Assembly, one of the two bodies which pass the laws of California.
- California Financial & Statistical Data
- This is the place to find financial and statistical information on the people of California. Includes county profiles, economic indicators, tax expenditures, and the 1996 California Statistical Abstract.
- California Legal Codes
- The various California Legal Codes (laws) are available through this location.
- California Lobbyist Directory
- The 1997-98 Directory of Lobbyists, Lobbying Firms, and Lobbyist Employers is published by the Secretary of State as required by Government Code Section 86109. The Directory's contents reflect information contained in lobbying registration documents filed with the Secretary of State for the 1997-98 session of the State Legislature.
Images and Full Text Resources
- California's Lost Tribes
- A four part series of articles from the Sacramento Bee, which examines the situation of Native Americans in California. Includes photographs from the series as well.
- California Heritage
- The California Heritage collection is a "digital" archive containing photographs, pictures, and manuscripts from the collections of the Bancroft Library. It is an "archive" because it offers the public direct access to unique, primary source materials documenting California's rich history "in their original archival context."
- California Gold: Northern California Folk Music From the Thirties
- A The WPA California Folk Music Project is a multi-format ethnographic field collection that includes sound recordings, still photographs, drawings, and written documents from a variety of European ethnic and English- and Spanish-speaking communities in Northern California. The collection comprises 35 hours of folk music recorded in twelve languages representing numerous ethnic groups and 185 musicians.
- California as I Saw It: "California's Early Years, 1849-1900"
- A Full texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history through eyewitness accounts. The collection covers the dramatic decades between the Gold Rush and the turn of the twentieth century..
- The Jack London Collection
- California writer Jack London (1876-1916) is archived here. Images, audio, writings and more available here.
- Return to Ramon Garza's Web Links Page..
