http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:55:08 PDT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:55:08 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=90754 This site offers "a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century." The collection is categorized by First-Person Narratives of the American South, a Library of Southern Literature, North American Slave Narratives, The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865 and The Church in the Southern Black Community. The collection can be searched by subject, author or title. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=90547 The Haymarket rally, bombing, and subsequent trials, executions, and pardon are presented at this site as a five-act drama. Each Entry page contains an image or group of images accompanied by a scrollable text that describes and discusses the Entry with interviews, excerpts of memoirs and contemporary news reports, and other primary documents. An introduction including an overview of the site and historical background, a guide to navigating the site, and resources links to a site map, guide to further reading, and PDF files are also provided. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=84939 National Archives Web site with links to U.S. Constitution, Declaration of Independence and many other documents. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=79735 Contains material located on the Sage Page for American history at Northern Virginia Community College but is period and topic rather than course specific. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=75284 Created by Ken Middleton, reference librarian and graduate student in American Women's History at Middle Tennessee State University, this site is an excellent resource for researchers, especially graduate students or advanced undergraduates, interested in US women's history. At the site, users will find a large number of citations of print and online reference materials and primary resources. " http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=523974 This site contains a great deal of information about John F. Kennedy. The Digital Archive enables one to explore documents, images and artifacts. There are also links to videos, audios, and transcripts of Kennedy's speeches. There is even the President's Desk, an interactive online module that allows web visitors to sit virtually at JFK's Oval Office desk. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=367947 The Shays' Rebellion & the Making of a Nation: From Revolution to Constitution website was created by Springfield Technical Community College in partnership with the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association (PVMA) using funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The website provides an opportunity for 21st century Americans to better understand the nature of the U.S. Constitution and how it came to be by providing a digitally interactive window into the pivotal period from the end of the Revolution up to the creation of the Constitution, a forgotten but crucial period in the nation's founding when the survival of the republican experiment was neither foreordained, nor assured. Shays' Rebellion occurred on the site of the Springfield Armory, established in 1777 as the principal armory for the northern states during the War for Independence. In 1787, it was the site of an armed rebellion by a group of disaffected farmers and ex-Continental soldiers, led by former Continental Army officer Daniel Shays, protesting eastern merchant loan practices. The rebels were beaten back by a militia of 4,400 soldiers who defended the arsenal. The interactive elements of the Shays' Rebellion website include the Primary Source Database, which creates an interactive multimedia approach to discovering the rich resource of primary historical sources, including an interactive "magic lens" function. Users on the website are able to interact with these primary sources in a series of Interactive Thematic Activities, based on primary source materials that engage visitors in a hands-on and concrete exploration of the thematic content. Users can click on individual primary sources embedded within each activity, as well as a series of Character Narratives, to further explore the content within the context of Rebellion and its impact on constitutional law. The voices of real people illustrate a variety of conflicting points of view, and the Interactive Thematic Activities and primary source materials will help illuminate key ideas which led to Shays' Rebellion and the consequences of the Rebellion's aftermath on the formation of a strong federal-based U.S. Constitution. The Shays' Rebellion & the Making of a Nation: From Revolution to Constitution website was recently awarded $10,000 from the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities for the creation of two interactive exhibit displays, to be housed at the Connecticut Valley Historical Museum of the Springfield Museums and the Springfield Armory National Historic Site museum. The two pedestal kiosks will house computers displaying the Shays' Rebellion website with which visitors can interact. Visitors to the museums will be able to interact with on-site artifacts alongside the cutting-edge Shays' Rebellion website in order to learn more about the times and context surrounding Shays' Rebellion, an event of national historical significance. These two kiosk displays are tentatively scheduled to open in June 2009. At the Connecticut Valley Historical Museum, there will be an estimated 5 artifacts placed on indefinite loan from the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, from whose collection over 75% of the artifacts used on the Shays' Rebellion website come. These artifacts will be displayed next to the interactive Shays' Rebellion website kiosk. At the Springfield Armory National Historical Site, the historic Wait Monument, an engraved sandstone road marker located on the Armory grounds during the time of Shays' Rebellion (and still bearing bullet holes and marks from being used as cover during the fight) will be prominently displayed on the museum floor, in proximity to a small collection of firearms from the Armory already on display at the Armory alongside the new Shays' Rebellion website kiosk. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=76637 Web site devoted to U.S. history with links to other sites, quizzes, and reference material. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=86084 Dentons work was the first English account intended to promote settlement of the region recently seized from the Dutch. It is of particular interest for 1) its description of the geographic and topographic features of the region from Albany in the north to the mouth of the Delaware Bay in the south, and from the eastern tip of Long Island to the interior of modern-day New Jersey; 2) its enumeration of the plants, animals, and commodities of the area; 3) its impressive and extended account of the customs and livelihood of the Indians of the region; 4) its early suggestion of manifest destiny, whereby the Indians are providentially removed by a Divine hand; 5) its depiction of the region as a terrestrial paradise for English settlement and agriculturea land flowing with milk and honey; and 6) its invocation of an early form of the rags-to-riches potential of American life.Rather than depict the rigors of colonial life, Denton focuses on the richness and opportunities of the New World, describing an almost carefree and sensually suggestive existence in a land rich in all sorts of fruits, including Strawberries, of which last is such abundance in June, that the Fields and Woods are died red : Which the Countrey-people perceiving, instantly arm themselves with bottles of Wine, Cream, and Sugar, and instead of a Coat of Male, every one takes a Female upon his Horse behind him, and so rushing violently into the fields, never leave till they have disrobd them of their red colours, and turned them into the old habit.Denton (c.16261703) was born in Yorkshire, England, and emigrated to Massachusetts in the 1640s. He was the son of the Reverend Richard Denton, considered the first Presbyterian minister in America. He became a town official and land developer in Long Island, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. His tract was published during his only return trip to England in 167072, and is a lively and unabashedly promotional picture of an Anglo-American agrarian paradise, including such examples as the following: How many poor people in the world would think themselves happy, had they an Acre or two of Land, whilst here is hundreds, nay thousands of Acres, that would invite inhabitants. I may say, and say truly, that if there be any terrestrial happiness to be had by people of all ranks, especially of an inferior rank, it must certainly be here : here any one may furnish himself with land, and live rent-free, yea, with such a quantity of land, that he may weary himself with walking over his fields of Corn, and all sorts of Grain. Here those which Fortune hath frownd upon in England, to deny them an inheritance amongst their Brethren, or such as by their utmost labors can scarcely procure a living, I say such may procure here inheritances of land, and possessions, stock themselves with all sorts of Cattel, enjoy the benefit of them whilst they live, and leave them to the benefit of their children when they die. I must needs say, that if there be any terrestrial Canaan, tis surely here, where the Land floweth with milk and honey. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=86101 This edition of A Narrative of the Planting of the Massachusets Colony Anno 1628 is based on the first edition published in Boston in 1694. The spelling, orthography, punctuation, and capitalization of the original have been retained; only obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Scottow's Narrative is the sequel to Old Mens Tears for their Own Declensions, published three years earlier. It is an expansion of the argument that God and history are being unkind to New England because its churches have strayed from the strict practice of the unanimously-minded early founders of the Congregational Way. Scottow treats of the miraculous events and deliverances that characterized the first generations, and contrasts these with the reverses and humiliations suffered by the later generation, including bad neighbors (the French and the Dutch), natural disasters, Indian wars, witchcraft, the loss of the colony's charter, the imposition of imperial rule, the non-support of ministers, and the abandonment of the office of the Ruling Elders in the churches. Perhaps the most famous quote (found in both works) is "That NEW-ENGLAND is not to be found in NEW-ENGLAND, nor BOSTON in BOSTON."