Attached is a the url of the "Gold Rush!" exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California. The website provides a lengthy history of the California gold rush, starting with our friends John Sutter and James Marshall at Sutter's Mill. There is also a virtual tour, a gallery of artwork, and historical descriptions of the time period. The exhibition also has an entire section dedicated to the different ethnic groups that migrated to the region, including Americans from the East, Mexicans, Asians, Native Americans, etc. This website is worth exploring, even if you just want to look at the art collection.

This is a very simple but informative timeline describing the American Revolution. The timeline gives brief chronological accounts of major events in the war in the upper portion but also displays contemporaneous global occurrences that may have affected or been affected by the Revolutionary War in the bottom portion. For example, the timeline describes battles in New Jersey and New York towards the beginning of the war and also illustrates that the economist Adam Smith wrote a book, The Wealth of Nations, in the same year that explained why government should not control the economy, a thought providing a major impetus for the war itself.