MERLOT Materials

Begins with the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 & ends with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It includes... see more

This is a site for law students. It includes notes about important constitutional issues, links to Supreme Court... see more

This web site is associated with a literature course at WMU. It includes essays about literature and historical texts... see more

Although the Medieval Sourcebook has now become a part of ORB (the Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies), it is... see more

This companion site to the PBS special "Reconstruction: The Second Civil War" offers insights into late 19th century... see more

Inspired by a video instructional series on Western civilization for college and high school classrooms, this... see more

This is a companion website to a PBS TV series of the same name. The website explores the political, social, military,... see more

This is not so much a unified website as a number of interlinked BBC history sites dealing with different aspects of... see more

This site is an authoritative information source on aspects of Kwame Nkrumah's life and works. It focuses primarily on... see more

A look at the Renaissance from the perspective of the Florentine princely house of the de Medicis based on a PBS... see more

This site is an archive of primary sources (including songs, letters, poems, images, and speeches) and questions to... see more

This site aims to give teachers the tools to increase student understanding of the American economic system and the... see more

This description of the city and inhabitants of New York and its environs was written by the Anglican chaplain who... see more

A multi-media presentation of three key Medieval thinkers, Anselm, Aquinas, and Roger Bacon.

This is an extraordinarily rich collection of primary sources that deal with various aspects of U.S. foreign relations... see more

This is a companion web site to the award-winning twenty-four episode documentary that appeared on television in 1998.... see more

This course will focus on the emergence and evolution of industrial societies around the world. It begins by comparing... see more

This University of Arizona web exhibit traces the history of the railway in the region. In the late nineteenth century,... see more

This course covers major theorists and theoretical schools since the late 19th century. Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Bourdieu,... see more

Humans are social animals; social demands, both cooperative and competitive, structure our development, our brain and our... see more

This course focuses on an in-depth reading of Principia Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis by Isaac Newton, as well as... see more

The Foreign Relations of the United States series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign... see more

Global exploration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries radically changed Western science, orienting philosophies... see more

How do literature, philosophy, film and other arts respond to the profound changes in world view and lifestyle that mark... see more