http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Thu, 23 May 2013 03:01:18 PDT Thu, 23 May 2013 03:01:18 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=80053 This is a companion website to a PBS TV series of the same name. The website explores the political, social, military, and cultural impact of the war as well as similarities between that conflict and more recent events.  PBS uses a variety of types of material to supplement the textual description and analysis of the war including silent archival videos, animated maps, comments from historians, timelines, quotes and poems from contemporaries, links to related web sites, and photographs.  The site also provides bibliographies, a glossary, lesson plans, and a topical and name index to the web site. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=90770 This is a companion web site to the award-winning twenty-four episode documentary that appeared on television in 1998. The web site includes links to historical documents; interactive maps; profiles of key figures; a glossary; narratives about culture, the space race, espionage, and the bomb; images; transcripts of interviews with key figures, games; links to other sites; and transcripts of chats with journalists, scientists, and historians about the topics of each episode of the TV series. Some of the narratives are excerpts from ?Cold War: An Illustrated History," the companion book to the TV series. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=82509 A look at the Renaissance from the perspective of the Florentine princely house of the de Medicis based on a PBS television program. Making extensive use of Renaissance art, this presentationprovides an overview of Italian Renaissance history and culture. Includes lesson plans for teachers and good links to other sites on the Renaissance. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=76305 This University of Arizona exhibit focuses on the Southwestern United States as is an exhibit created as part of the larger "Southwest Project." Definitions alter over time, between people, and beyond borders. Landmasses change as physical and human forces exert pressure upon them. And a region is carved, molded, and defined by people in historical relation to it. In Defining the Southwest, we gather multiple visions of what the Southwest might entail. To quote Reed Way Dasenbrook, "What is the Southwest? For whom is it the Southwest? What is the Southwest southwest of?" http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=344371 A multi-media presentation of three key Medieval thinkers, Anselm, Aquinas, and Roger Bacon. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=80470 This companion site to the PBS special "Reconstruction: The Second Civil War" offers insights into late 19th century American history. Topics include the Civil War, slavery, abolition, race relations, definitions of freedom and citizenship, civil rights, black suffrage and election to political office, impeachment, regional political differences, the cotton economy, nation building after war, sharecropping, federal government intervention in the states, and more. The site offers primary sources, a Q&A section with responses from prominent historians, bibliographies, links to related web sites, and a teacher's guide.