History Community Portal
Welcome – From the Editor
Welcome to the MERLOT History Portal, an educational resource for teaching and learning. Use this portal to discover online learning materials, MERLOT members, journals, professional organizations, and news in your discipline.
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Hundreds of photographs, documents, and film clips to browse to discover the connection between some of the National Archives' most treasured records.
New Materials
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Two Nations, One Land: UNSCOP and the Question of Israel, 1947 (Historical Game)
This open historical game was created through an ALG Pilot Grant for Developing an Open Historical Game. In this type of...
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Atlanta 1913: Justice for Mary Phagan and Leo Frank (Historical Game)
This open historical game was created through an ALG Pilot Grant for Developing an Open Historical Game. In this type of...
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National Cyber Strategy Simulation (Historical Game)
This Reacting to the Past Open Historical Game is developed as a result of a Pilot Grant for Developing an Open...
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Contested Visions: The History of Western Civilization from 1648
This textbook traces Western Civilization since 1648, primarily through Primary Documents. The book would work well as a...
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World Civilizations I and II Video Textbook
This video textbook started with the creation of 73 supplementary 10-20 minute video lectures for World Civilizations at...
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Arlington National Cemetery Education Program
Welcome to Arlington National Cemetery’s new education program! Discover the diverse history of the United States through...
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: What Led to Her Abjuration?
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was a 17th-century nun from Mexico, known then as New Spain. At a time when most women in New...
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Pulitzer Center
The Pulitzer Center raises awareness of underreported global issues through direct support for quality journalism across...
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National Women's History Museum - Resources for Students and Educators
National Women's History Museum has a wide variety of resources for students to learn about history and historical...
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DVL: Vatican Library
A digital library service that provides free access to the Vatican Library’s digitized collections: manuscripts,...
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Learning an Organizing System: Library of Congress Sanborn Maps Collection
The Sanborn Maps Collection (https://www.loc.gov/collections/sanborn-maps) includes over 35,000 digitized fire insurance...
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Mendl Mann’s 'The Fall of Berlin'
Mendl Mann’s autobiographical novel The Fall of Berlin tells the painful yet compelling story of life as a Jewish soldier...
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Sanborn Map Collection at the Library of Congress, an organizational overview.
The lesson plan and accompanying slide show provide an overview of the organization and collection at the Library of...
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The American LGBTQ Rights Movement: An Introduction
The American LGBTQ Rights Movement: An Introduction is a peer-reviewed chronological survey of the LGBTQ fight for equal...
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Guillotine
This is a guide to help history students learn about an old execution tool, called the guillotine, made famous during the...
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History of the Guillotine
This is a freely accible book available on Wilisource. The free online library. Written in 1853 by John Wilson Croker...
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Guillotine
The Guillotine was introduced by Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotine, he was not the inventor of the machine only a lobbyist for...
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
This is a guide designed to help students learn about the legacy that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had on...
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Waltzing Through Europe: Attitudes towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth Century
From ‘folk devils’ to ballroom dancers, Waltzing Through Europe explores the changing reception of fashionable couple...
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Open Scholarship Knowledge Base
The Open Scholarship Knowledge Base contains resources created, curated, and contributed by the Open Scholarship...
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What are Reparations? Britain Owes Reparations to India.
Rajiv Malhotra explains why Britain owes reparations to India. Video clip used with permission from Rajiv Malhotra,...
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World War II: Comfort Women in Korea
"Comfort Women" is a subject of contentious debate between Korea and Japan. This video focuses on the history of "comfort...
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Mendez vs. Westminster Case: Separate is NOT Equal. Violation of Fourteenth Amendment
The Mendez family won the landmark federal court case that challenged segregation in California schools. In 1947...
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What is the Monroe Doctrine? US Interventions in Latin America Explained.
How did the Monroe Doctrine become the justification for American interventions in Latin America? Who is the legitimate...
New Members
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Lillian J SteeleNorth Carolina Central University
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Carlos GarciaPrepa Ibero
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Christopher WestPasadena City College
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Maurine TerryEnumclaw School District
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Alvaro SilvaNova School of Business and Economics
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Michael SmookSmook Lectures
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Katherine SadlerClark College
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claudia medinapacentra
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Mathew RaylGladwin Community Schools
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Marjorie JeffersUniversity of Southern Queensland
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Christina WilburLamar University - Port Arthur
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Anna YoungUniversity of Tennessee System - Knoxville
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Panorama EducNone
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Hugo VargasAUHSD
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Brandy BarnesNone
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D. Zizwe PoeLincoln University
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Mihai MatcovUSM
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Kairen JungKairen SAT/AP Prep
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Maureen FrantzichNone
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Maurice BrownSouthwest Tennessee Community College
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Iain MacleodUniversity of Glasgow
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Raphael NkakaUniversity of Rwanda
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Montgomery CollierAtkins High School
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Matt WolskiMetea Valley high School
Materials by Discipline
- Area Studies (904)
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- Theory and Method (45)
- Topical (608)
History on the Web
History on Twitter
- Cambodian concepts of history pose striking challenges to the dominant narratives about ‘abandoned and forgotten ci… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…12 hours ago | HistoryToday
- The ‘spy fever’ generated by the First World War placed many of Europe’s immigrant communities under suspicion.
A… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…13 hours ago | HistoryToday
- 'I like the interchange between new religious and social forms and traditional ones; and the expansion of contact b… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…14 hours ago | HistoryToday
- The February issue is on sale today!
Including: The Failure of the English Armada, Cambodia, Britain's ‘Spy Fever’… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…15 hours ago | HistoryToday
- In the wake of the failure of the Spanish Armada, England sought retaliation by launching an invasion of its own.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…16 hours ago | HistoryToday
- In 1946, Soviet Belarus broke the taboo on Holocaust remembrance with the first monument in the Soviet Union dedica… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…17 hours ago | HistoryToday
- The admiral Cheng Ho commanded extensive organised maritime expeditions, 60 years before Western nations were to eq… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…18 hours ago | HistoryToday
- On #ThisDayInHistory President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are joined by former Presidents Barack Ob… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | HISTORY
- 45 presidents, 35 words. As presidents change, the oath of office stays the same. https://t.co/Ir1O5LE15J, photo: pic.twitter.com/Ir1O5LE15J1 day ago | HISTORY
- 'It is the positive which is accentuated in Inaugurals, not the negative, especially in moments of great crisis. Du… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | HistoryToday