The following represents just a sampling of the resources available in Special Collections and Archives around which students in History 190E could build a successful research paper. Special Collections call numbers are given in bold.

Books used for Hands-On Assignment in Class:

• Beechey, Frederick William. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to co-operate with the polar expeditions. London, 1831. 2 vols. G650 1825 .B415 (vol. 1 used in class)
• Cook, James. A voyage towards the South pole, and round the world. London, 1777. 2 vols. G420 .C66 1777 (vol. 2 used in class)
• Corney, Peter. Voyages in the northern Pacific: narrative of several trading voyages from 1813 to 1818, between the northwest coast of America, the Hawaiian Islands and China .... Honolulu, 1896. RHR G477 .C81
• Dooner, P. W. (Pierton W.). Last days of the republic. San Francisco, 1880. RHR PS1545 .D83 L37 1880
• Griffis, William Elliot. America in the East: a glance at our history, prospects, problems, and duties in the Pacific Ocean. New York, 1899. Langson Library (not Special Collections) DS518.8 .G7  Note on this book: If you are interested in using this book, please e-mail me at blandis@uci.edu. The book needs some preservation work and I will be sending it to conservation after this quarter is over. It will, though, be available in Special Collections through the end of this quarter.
• Hall, Basil. Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea, and the great Loo-Choo island. London, 1818. DS895 .R9 H2
• Nordhoff, Charles. Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich islands. New York, 1874. RHR F866 .N83 1874
• California. Legislature. Senate. Special Committee on Chinese Immigration. Chinese immigration: its social, moral, and political effect. Sacramento, 1878. RHR JV6878 .C2 A2 1878

Note: Categories below are not generally mutually exclusive!

• Immigration:
• Davis, Horace. Chinese immigration: speech of Hon. Horace Davis of California, in the House of Representatives, June 8, 1878. Washington, 1878. RHRpam JV6875 .D38 1878
• The Pacific tourist: J.R. Bowman's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean .... New York, 1882-1883. RHR F595 .S54 1882-83 (especially the chapter on "The Chinese in San Francisco" starting on p. 279)
• Seward, George F. Chinese immigration in its social and economical aspects. New York, 1881. RHR JV6876 .E2 S52 1880
• Cook and other explorers:
• Cook, James. The journal of H.M.S. Resolution, 1772-1775. Guildford, U.K., 1981. Facsimile reproduction of British Library copy of Cook's journal, Add. MSS 27886. Gen-OS G420 .C66 1981
• Cook, James. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. London, 1784. 3 vols. + plates/atlas. Gen-TOS G420 .C69 1784a Atlas (UCI Special Collections has the plates/atlas volume only)
• Cook, James. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. London, 1788. 4 vols. SCV-082
• Hall, Basil. Extracts from a journal, written on the coasts of Chili [sic], Peru, and Mexico. Edinburgh, 1824. 2 vols. Naval History F2213 .H15 1824
• Murray-Oliver, Anthony. Captain Cook's artists in the Pacific. Christchurch, New Zealand, 1969. Gen-TOS G420 .C62 M8
• Pinkerton, John. A general collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world; many of which are now first translated into English. London, 1808-1814. 17 vols. Gen-OS G161 .P65 (vol. 11 - Polynesia and Australasia used in class)
• Whaling:
• Calkin, Milo. The last voyage of the Independence: the story of a shipwreck and South Sea sketches, 1833-1836. San Francisco, 1953 (reprint). RHR G530 .C129 (The Independence was a whaler)
• Scammon, Charles Melville. Journal aboard the bark Ocean Bird on a whaling voyage to Scammon's Lagoon, winter of 1858-1859. Los Angeles, 1970. Baja California travels series, vol. 21. RHR F1246 .B163 v.21 c.2.  Series index is also available - a big benefit of edited series! (vol. 50), RHR F1246 .B163 Index
• Zollers, George D. Thrilling incidents on sea and land. Mt. Morris, Ill., 1892 RHR G530 .Z86 (Book on whaling in the Pacific)
• Hawai'i:
• Coke, Henry J. A ride over the Rocky Mountains to Oregon and California: with a glance at some of the tropical islands, including the West Indies and the Sandwich Isles. London, 1852. RHR F593 .C67
• Olivares, Jose de. Our islands and their people, as seen with camera and pencil. St. Louis, 1899. 2 vols. Not in Antpac, but will soon be G545 B55 1871 (vol. 2 used in class)
• Stoddard, Charles Warren. South-sea idyls. New York, 1892. RHR PS2930 .S6 1892
• Cultural contact:
• Bancroft, Hubert Howe. The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. San Francisco, 1882-1890. 39 vols. RHR F851 .B215 1882 (vol. 2, Native Races - Civilized Nations used in class) - Note that there are check-outable copies of all Bancroft volumes in the Langson Library stacks under the same call number.
• Greey, Edward. Blue jackets; or, the adventures of J. Thompson, A.B. amont "the heathen Chinee". A nautical novel. Boston, 1871. Naval History PS1764 .
• The Seaman's recorder: or, authentic and interesting narratives of popular shipwrecks, and other calamities incident to a life of maratime [sic] enterprise. London, 1824-1825. 3 vols. Naval History G525 .S45 (vol. 3 used in class)
• Gold rush:
• Revere, Joseph Warren. A tour of duty in California, including a description of the gold region, and an account of the voyage around Cape Horn, with notices of lower California, the Gulf and Pacific coasts, and the principal events attending the conquest of the Californias. New York, 1849. F865 .R4
• Ryan, William Redmond. Personal adventures in Upper and Lower California, in 1848-9, with the author's experience at the mines. London, 1850. 2 vols. F865 .R96 (vol. 2 used in class)
• Shaw, William. Golden dreams and waking realities: being the adventures of a gold-seeker in California and the Pacific Islands. London, 1851. F865 .S48
• Korea:
• McLeod, John. Voyage of His Majesty's ship Alceste, along the coast of Corea to the island of Lewchew, with an account of her subsequent shipwreck. London, 1818. Naval History DS507 .M17 1818

• California Newspaper Collection (MS-R70), XOS1
• Daily Alta California (San Francisco), issue for February 7, 1865