http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Fri, 24 May 2013 09:33:52 PDT Fri, 24 May 2013 09:33:52 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=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=80518 American Journeys is a digital library of more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration. These documents include Viking sagas about Canada in AD 1000, diaries, maps, pictures, travel logs, and the Lewis and Clark expedition journals. Authors, besides Lewis and Clark, include Captain Cook, Leif Ericson, John Smith, LaSalle, Coronado, De Soto, and Columbus. The site provides both page images and the OCR text of pages, as well as a brief essay on the background of each document. Several types of search mechanisms -- field, keyword, and full text -- allow users to find passages on research topics. The site also contains a section of "Resources for Teachers." Here instructors will find suggested topics for student essays, lesson plans, and several short pieces that cover issues such as (a) how to talk about the world view and language of the explorers in the classroom and (b) finding other primary sources on early exploration. American Journeys is a collaborative project of the Wisconsin Historical Society and National History Day. One of its target audiences is high school students exploring National History Day's 2004 theme, "Exploration, Encounter & Exchange." http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=77447 This site describes historical aspects of approximately 200 National Park Service sites. The "Teaching with Historic Places" section provides lesson plans. The "Links to the Past" section contains text, images, and links on topics in several categories including: archeology, architecture and engineering, cultural groups, cultural landscapes, historic buildings and structures, mapping, maritime, and military history, and national historical landmarks. Examples of the kinds of materials available through this site are information about all of the properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places, information on Civil War soldiers and sailors, and Ronald Lee's book on the Antiquities Act of 1906. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=311968 Aldo Leopold is considered by many to have been the most influential conservation thinker of the 20th Century. Leopold's legacy spans the disciplines of forestry, wildlife management, conservation biology, sustainable agriculture, restoration ecology, private land management, environmental history, literature, education, esthetics, and ethics. Funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), the Aldo Leopold Archive houses the raw materials that document not only Leopold's rise to prominence but the history of conservation and the emergence of the field of ecology from the early 1900s until his death in 1948. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=83598 The Antiquities of Wisconsin, Increase A. Lapham's most important published work, was the result of his interest in the Indian effigy mounds found on Wisconsin's Landscape. His research for the work was funded by the American Antiquarian Society and it was published in the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge series. Antiquities includes 92 pages of text, illustrated with 61 wood engravings, and 55 lithographed plates. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=83642 The field notes and plat maps of the public land survey of Wisconsin are a valuable resource for original land survey information, as well as for understanding Wisconsin's landscape history. The survey of Wisconsin was conducted between 1832 and 1866 by the federal General Land Office. This work established the township, range and section grid; the pattern upon which land ownership and land use is based. The survey records were transferred to the Wisconsin Board of Commissioners of Public Lands after the original survey was completed.