Suggested Further Reading 

Newsletters, Magazines and Catalogs

Common Ground, Spring 2008: Preserving Our Nation's Heritage, includes "Seeding California," a beautifully illustrated account of William Mulholland's Los Angeles Aqueduct project. Common Ground is a high quality free quarterly magazine, published by the National Park Service. To subscribe or read on line visit Common Ground. The Spring 2008 issue includes "Seeding California," a beautifully illustrated account of William Mulholland's Los Angeles Aqueduct project.

Common-Place, an on-line history magazine, has a special issue titled Revolution in Print: Graphics in Nineteenth Century America. The whole issue is highly recommended, but HS website visitors might find the following articles especially compelling:

-- Gary L. Bunker, The Art of Condecension: Postbellum Caricature and Woman Suffrage"
-- Katharine Martinez, "The Dickinsons of Amherst Collect: Pictures and their Meanings in a Victorian Home"
-- Deirdre Murphy, ""'Like Standing on the Edge of the World and Looking into Heaven:' Picturing Chinese Labor and Industrial Velocity in the Gilded Age"
-- Jonathan Prude, "Engaging Urban Panoramas: City Views of the Antebellum North"
-- Sue Rainey, "Picturesque California: How Westerners Portrayed the West in the Age of John Muir" -- Wendy Wick Reaves, "'Reading' Portrait Prints: New Ways of Seeing Old Faces"

Journal Plus: Magazine of the Central Coast, a free publication that regularly publishes local history pieces by Joe Carotenuti and others. Visit their website, Slo Journal.com, or call 805 546-for more information. We are particularly enjoying Joseph Carotenuti's continuing, deeply researched, well-written explorations of SLO history each month. His articles thus far this year are "Living History, A Conversation with Robert Brown" (January); "The San Luis Obispo County Seal," (February); "The Anza Trail" (March); "History From a Bus" (April); "The Call to California, Part I" (May); "The Call to California, Part II" (June).

Minerva, the new free online catalog of the California State Archives, is now available at http://minerva.sos.ca.gov/. Named for Minerva, the goddess on the California state seal, the catalog is well on its way toward providing easy access to the state's entire treasure trove of historical materials, -- which today bulk to 232 million items.

The National Park Service Newsletter is a free publication that is delivered to you via email. Subscribe by clicking here.  As an example of the types of articles contained in this publication, the March 2007 issue cites several items of interest:

-- A virtual tour of the World War II Japanese Internment Camp at Manzanar.
-- A new National Archives one-stop website for U.S. Presidential Libraries,  offering downloadable documents and images.
-- A free downloadable digital archive of over a million Freedman's Bureau Field Office of Records, invaluable for tracing African-American family histories.

Preservation Matters is a recently launched, quarterly newsletter from the California Office of Historic Preservation and includes full color photos of places and structures. It is beautifully printed in full color with all sorts of timely preservation information of interest to all historically-minded Californians. You can read the newsletter in pdf format by clicking here.

Public History News is the quarterly newsletter for members of the National Council on Public History. For more information, click here.

The Heritage Shared Guide to 
Central Coast Historical Resources

As best we can tell, this publication is the first attempt at a comprehensive guide to Central Coast historical resources. We have defined resources broadly to include written and graphic documents, artifacts and structures, culture bearers and the World Wide Web. Like any other historical project, this guide is a work in progress, subject to review and correction. If you notice errors or oversights, please let us know so we can update entries for the next edition. October, 2002 Below is the text version of the guide. Click on the image at left to view the PDF version.* Send suggestions to: Resource Guide Update Heritage Shared, P.O. Box 4614, San Luis Obispo CA 93403 or via e-mail to Astrid Gallagher

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