We have free history lessons and assessments to support teaching California history. Materials with an asterisk (*) are available to download in Spanish.
Reading Like a Historian Lessons
Portola Expedition
California Missions*
California Mission Revolt*
Manifest Destiny*
The Gold Rush and San Francisco*
Evaluating Sources on Mexican California: Who Was Juana Briones?
Overland Trails*
Who Was Biddy Mason?
Historical Photos of Chinese Railroad Workers*
Chinese Immigration and Exclusion*
The Liberator and the Black Press
Historical Chinatown Photos*
Japanese Segregation in San Francisco
Angel Island*
Historical Photographs of African Americans*
Mexicans in the U.S. in the 1920s*
Mexican Migration in the 1930s*
City Pool Desegregation*
Migrant Mother Photograph*
Japanese American Incarceration
Ansel Adams at Manzanar*
Japanese American Resistance to Incarceration*
Zoot Suit Riots*
Tule Lake Uprising
Second Red Scare and the Supreme Court*
Civil Rights Movement Photos*
Chicano Student Walkouts of 1968*
The Black Power Movement
Farmworker Movement*
History Assessments of Thinking
North American Map*
Immigration
Gold Rush
Gold Rush Riches
Transcontinental Railroad Connections
Chinatown Image*
Life in California*
Mexican Americans in the 1930s
Migrant Mother
Lange's Iconic Photograph
Migrant Mother Significance
Rosie the Riveter
Mexican American Rights
Forced Removal of Japanese Americans
Japanese American Resistance Source Evaluation*
Dennis v. United States*
United Farm Workers