http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Fri, 24 May 2013 09:55:50 PDT Fri, 24 May 2013 09:55:50 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=91378 A complex and highly detailed virtual tour of 18th century Edo (now Tokyo) using traditional Japanese woodblock prints to explore not only the sights of the city but the nature and texture of life within it. It is as much a document on early modern urban life in a great city as it is a usefulsource on traditional Japanese history and culture. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=77443 This site provides an introduction to the Salem witch trials. It includes materials (text and multimedia movie) about Salem, the trials, and the major figures involved in the events as well as teacher tips and a list of related books and web sites. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=77444 This Plymouth Colony Archive presents a collection of searchable texts, including court records, colony laws, 17th century texts, research and seminar analysis of various topics, biographical profiles of selected colonists, probate inventories, wills, maps, town and fort plans, architectural and material culture studies. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=77297 A well done general site on one of traditional China's major epochs, the Song dynasty era. This site covers the economic and social history of the period with special attention to the commercial developments of the time and the rise of the Mandarin elite. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=78315 "Virtual Jamestown" is a digital research and teaching project that explores the settlement and impact of Jamestown. Primary resources found at this site include first hand accounts and letters (with full-text search capabilities), maps and images, 18th century advertisements for runaway slaves and indentured servants, a database of over 10,000 indentured servant contracts, and public records such as census data and laws. Future plans include adding court records such as deeds, wills, and court order books. Secondary materials at this site include a timeline, interpretive essays by prominent historians, links to related sites, bibliographies, and teaching tools and classroom activities. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=79152 Tangled Roots is a research project about the shared history of African Americans and Irish Americans. The purpose of the site is to investigate the history of American slaves and immigrants from Ireland and to consider the links between them in order to promote an understanding of race and ethnicity in America. The site includes short biographical sketches of important people, organizations and events from the history of African and Irish Americans; questions for class discussion; timelines; bibliographic references; and links to related web sites. It also provides access to The Gilder Lehrman Center's online document collection, which contains over 200 individual items dating from the 17th century to the present, including speeches, letters, cartoons and graphics, interviews, and articles. The documents are organized by author, date, subject, and document type. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=82065 A web archive of voices and images from the landless workers movement in Brazil. In Portuguese and English http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=77415 This site covers the making and unmaking of the mill village system for textile manufacturing in the Piedmont region of the U.S. South between 1880 and 1934. It includes oral history resources, images, and text based upon the 1987 book of the same name. The web site covers the following topics: life on the land, mill village and factory, work and protest. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=77442 This site is based upon the PBS television special about the Mississippi River flood of 1927. It includes primary source documents, a sample Delta blues song about the flood, flood film clips, maps, and information from historians. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=80045 The End of Europe's Middle Ages is designed to assist those students engaged in Renaissance, Reformation and Early Modern studies who lack a background in medieval European history. The site provides a brief overview of the conditions at the end of Europe's Middle Ages, summarizing the economic, political, religious and intellectual environment of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries to furnish a baseline against which the vast changes of the following centuries may be measured.