http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:02:02 PDT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:02:02 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=79032 "Crisis at Fort Sumter" is an interactive historical simulation and decision making program. Using text, images, and sound, it reconstructs the dilemmas of policy formation and decision making in the period between Abraham Lincoln's election in November 1860 and the battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861. The program primarily focuses on Lincoln, both as President-elect and as President. Viewers place themselves in Lincoln's position, consider the events that transpire, and choose a course of action at five critical junctures, called "problems." At each of these five junctures, Lincoln made a decision that helped determine the outcome of the crisis at Fort Sumter. In order to assess each problem and make a decision, advice is available from official advisors, such as cabinet members, and from various informal channels, such as newspapers, friends, and public spokesmen. The program divides the information about the Sumter crisis into nine chronological sections. The text within the sections also contains hotword links that permit viewers to explore information in a topical rather than a chronological manner and commentary links that provide additional information including material about debates among historians about events, action, or people. The site also contains an extensive bibliography on the civil war. 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=78311 MesoAmerican Ballgame provides the opportunity to examine the preColumbian history and culture of Mexico. An interactive map guides the user through the worlds of the Olmec, Maya, and Aztec populations of Central America. Users explore the world of Mexico's native populations, the history and the sport of the ball game, and museum exhibits. The exhibit items were part of a national museum tour. The site has won numerous awards and there are some suggested classroom activities. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=90759 This site allows visitors to unwrap a virtual mummy. Viewers can choose Procedure, Reconstruction, or Quicktime Movies. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=75420 An attempt to quantify the demographic impact of the Atlantic slave trade on African regions, allowing users to set and modify demographic conditions. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=90884 This site features detailed text, maps and other images that describe the background and the events of this battle. Users can select an overview of events that precipitated the battle, key events prior to the start of the action indicating both American and British actions, other resources such as biographies of key individuals, battle analysis, logistic support and more. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=76500 Mirroring the PBS series, interactive site focusing on the people, places, events, and trends of the British Empire under Queen Victoria in the nineteenth century. Includes games, learning materials, maps, text. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=79618 Search for objects in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Walker Art Center and use them to create your own exhibition. The user can add text to each image, zoom in on details, and put them in any order, and then publish them to the web for other to see.PLEASE NOTE: You must register to use the site, although there is no cost. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=295663 From 1997 to 2003 the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory (CVR Lab) created a digital model of the Roman Forum as it appeared in late antiquity. The notional date of the model is June 21, 400 A.D. From 2002 to 2005, with generous support from the National Science Foundation, the CVRLab was able to create this Web site about the digital Forum model. The purposes of this site are to use the Internet to permit free use and easy viewing of the digital model by people all over the world; to provide documentation for the archaeological evidence and theories utilized to create the model; and to offer basic information about the individual features comprising the digital model so that their history and cultural context can be readily understood. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=76403 This web-based educational role-playing game simulates the experience of fugitive slaves in the American South before the U.S. Civil War. Users assume the persona of an actual historical figure, such as Harriet Tubman or Frederick Douglass, and move about a map of the nineteenth-century United States as they are confronted with events taken from fugitive slave narratives. Bowdoin undergraduates created the historical content for the simulation and designed websites providing historical background for the period. High school students are the target audience for this project.