http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Thu, 23 May 2013 05:26:15 PDT Thu, 23 May 2013 05:26:15 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=80777 This site provides an analysis of the French Canadian/Indian raid on Deerfield in 1704 and its causes and impact on the participants and victims. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=80415 Jamestown Rediscovery is a site designed for the upcoming 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown (1607-2007). The site offers uers the opportunity to learn about recent and continuing archaeological work at Colonial Jamestown. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=80413 The Conquistadors is a Legacy series narrated by Michael Woods. The site is divided into four parts: Mexico and the Aztecs, Peru and the Inca, Amazonia, and North America. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=78309 The Hancock Shaker Village, located in western Massachusetts, was an active Shaker community from 1783-1960. The village is now a Massachusetts state historic site. The web site provides a detailed tour of the Hancock Shaker community, offers information about the Shaker faith, and has an excellent set of web links to additional Shaker communities in the United States. Information is provided for suggested classroom uses of the site material. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=78310 Lowell, Massachusetts was the site of the first textile mills constructed in the United States in the first half of the 19th century. The site offers a tour of the history and the mills using original sources and photographs to tell the story of the girls and women who worked the mills. The site is affiliated with the Tsongas Industrial History Center and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell Graduate School of Education. Learning assignments are offerd for grades 8-12 and can be used for survey courses in United States History at the college level. A reference list is provided for additional reading. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=554081 An interactive exploration of the Salem witchcraft outbreak of 1692, the Salem Witchcraft Site provides data about certain aspects of the outbreak and demonstrates how this data can be used to further our understanding of events. The website takes a "learn by doing," or "inquiry" approach to learning. It formulates questions about Salem witchcraft, explores solutions, and encourages users to pursue further understanding on their own.In emphasizing a quantitative approach to Salem, the site provides a number of data sets containing information about various aspects of the Salem outbreak, such as the month of the year when "witches" were accused and the communities in which they lived. Instructions are provided to analyze the data so that users can determine for themselves connections not readily apparent in traditional historical sources and books. The statistical analysis includes histograms, scatter plots, pie charts, means, and medians. Users need not perform statistical analyses but can simply follow the discussion.Used selectively or in its entirety, the site is intended for a wide audience: historians, whether as researchers or teachers; students of history and of the Salem witchcraft episode, whether in school or not; and non-historians, such as those who teach or are learning basic statistics or social science methodology. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=83100 The E Pluribus Unum Project is designed for the use of students, teachers, and other researchers who wish to examine the attempt to make "one from many" in three critical decades of American life: the 1770s, the 1850s, and the 1920s. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=80047 Produced by BBC as part of the Open University series, this website features four historians' views on aspects of Renaissance history to illustrate the interpretative nature of historical thinking. Along with synopses of their studies on the nature of Venice as a "second-hand" city, problems of health care in Italian city-states, a plot against Queen Elizabeth of England, and what it was that Guttenburg "invented," it includes sections on how history is done and the critical thinking that is needed in collecting and evaluating historical evidence. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=738712 Study on the new works and new life aspects of Michael Servetus, genius from Renaissance, discoverer of Pulmonary circulation and defender of tolerance. Primary sources and pdf's of publications. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=361559 "In August 1955, a fourteen-year-old black boy whistled at a white woman in a grocery store in Money, Mississippi. Emmett Till, a teen from Chicago, didn't understand that he had broken the unwritten laws of the Jim Crow South until three days later, when two white men dragged him from his bed in the dead of night, beat him brutally and then shot him in the head. Although his killers were arrested and charged with murder, they were both acquitted quickly by an all-white, all-male jury." This site was designed to supplement a PBS film by the same title. Included here are supplementary materials including a synopsis of the film, transcripts, interviews, links to biographies of people involved, and teacher's guide.