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.
You are also invited to join MERLOT – it's free! As a member of MERLOT, you can contribute to this growing community of instructors and students by using and rating the learning materials you find, submitting online learning materials for evaluation that you have created or that you have used.
MERLOT prides itself on the peer reviews of material in our collection. As a member you can become a peer reviewer which has many benefits! The peer review process for evaluating the teaching and learning resources in MERLOT follows a standard model and is led by Editors and editorial boards. Faculty members are selected in accordance with MERLOT guidelines. For more information, email beareviewer@merlot.org or visit our Peer Review Information page.
Showcase
Hundreds of photographs, documents, and film clips to browse to discover the connection between some of the National Archives' most treasured records.
New Materials
-
African Burial Ground National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
Discover the African Burial Ground National Monument: A Lightning Lesson from Teaching with Historic Places Learn about...
-
Lesson Plans Archive - Tenement Museum
With Tenement Museum resources, students become historians. Using our teacher-tested lesson plans, students engage in...
-
TeachArchives.org
TeachArchives.org is an innovative resource for teachers, administrators, librarians, archivists, and museum educators....
-
Animals of the Great War
The eBook Animals in the Great War is one of the didactic proposals that was developed by the cultural association Se. It...
-
Creating a Social Economy: Maria Grazia Suriano on Crowdfunding and OER - Sustainable Funding Vlogcast
On Episode 2 of the Sustainable Funding Vlogcast for Media, Educators, Technologists, and Creators, author of Animals of...
-
The Marvels Found in the Great Cities and in the Seas and on the Islands: A Representative of ‘Aǧā’ib Literature in Syriac
This volume presents the original text, accompanied by an English translation and commentary, of a hitherto unpublished...
-
'The Philosophes' by Charles Palissot
In 1760, the French playwright Charles Palissot de Montenoy wrote Les Philosophes – a scandalous farcical comedy about a...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
Arlington National Cemetery Education Program
Welcome to Arlington National Cemetery’s new education program! Discover the diverse history of the United States through...
-
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...
-
Pulitzer Center
The Pulitzer Center raises awareness of underreported global issues through direct support for quality journalism across...
-
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...
-
DVL: Vatican Library
A digital library service that provides free access to the Vatican Library’s digitized collections: manuscripts,...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
Guillotine
This is a guide to help history students learn about an old execution tool, called the guillotine, made famous during the...
-
History of the Guillotine
This is a freely accible book available on Wilisource. The free online library. Written in 1853 by John Wilson Croker...
-
Guillotine
The Guillotine was introduced by Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotine, he was not the inventor of the machine only a lobbyist for...
New Members
-
Sonnerie Franceccc
-
David McKenzieVIA
-
Jessica LewisNational Park Service
-
Cindy DeanStanly Community/Technical College
-
Zachary TurnerCoastal Carolina University
-
Marianne HughesFusion Academy
-
El Jean ArmesParef Southridge School
-
Lillian J SteeleNorth Carolina Central University
-
Carlos GarciaPrepa Ibero
-
Christopher WestPasadena City College
-
Maurine TerryEnumclaw School District
-
Alvaro SilvaNova School of Business and Economics
-
Michael SmookSmook Lectures
-
Katherine SadlerClark College
-
claudia medinapacentra
-
Mathew RaylGladwin Community Schools
-
Marjorie JeffersUniversity of Southern Queensland
-
Christina WilburLamar University - Port Arthur
-
Anna YoungUniversity of Tennessee System - Knoxville
-
Panorama EducNone
-
Hugo VargasAUHSD
-
Brandy BarnesNone
-
D. Zizwe PoeLincoln University
-
Mihai MatcovUSM
Materials by Discipline
- Area Studies (905)
- Resources (136)
- Theory and Method (46)
- Topical (608)
History on the Web
-
Yog is our ancient culture, it energises us: Governor Baby Rani Maurya
Mar 07, 2021 02:52 PM PST
-
Thulamela: Africa's ancient history of civilisation written in the stone walls
Mar 07, 2021 12:26 PM PST
-
How will COVID-19 change the future? Look to history.
Mar 07, 2021 10:56 AM PST
-
Celebrating women's history this month
Mar 07, 2021 10:00 AM PST
-
George Floyd Murder Trial Expected To Start Monday, Will Be Televised Live By Court TV
Mar 07, 2021 09:14 AM PST
-
Amy Sherald Directs Her Breonna Taylor Painting Toward Justice
Mar 07, 2021 09:03 AM PST
-
Kerr: Don't be afraid to teach truth of American history
Mar 07, 2021 06:48 AM PST
-
Today in History for March 7th
Mar 07, 2021 06:37 AM PST
-
China urges Biden to lift 'unreasonable' restrictions
Mar 07, 2021 06:28 AM PST
-
$15 dollar minimum wage: What would it mean?
Mar 07, 2021 06:15 AM PST
-
Today in History: Alexander Graham Bell Patents the Telephone
Mar 07, 2021 05:07 AM PST
-
Letter: Good that Glassman is addressing Black history in Harford, but a few issues | READER ...
Mar 07, 2021 01:56 AM PST
-
David Westring
Mar 07, 2021 01:33 AM PST
-
LETTER: Howard Zinn's history is American history
Mar 06, 2021 11:52 PM PST
-
Cyber Monday becomes biggest online shopping day in US history, topping nearly $11 billion in ...
Mar 06, 2021 06:26 PM PST
-
'The Trial of the Chicago 7' is entertaining, emotional and exasperating
Mar 06, 2021 05:53 PM PST
-
Boston Home Where Malcolm X Spent Teenage Years Receives Historic Distinction
Mar 06, 2021 05:07 PM PST
-
Today in History
Mar 06, 2021 03:48 PM PST
-
Minnesota's K-12 social studies review looks to broaden class lessons
Mar 06, 2021 01:53 PM PST
History on Twitter
- On #ThisDayInHistory in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his revolutionary new invention – the tel… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…6 hours ago | HISTORY
- On #ThisDayInHistory in 1965, a 600-person civil rights demonstration co-led by John Lewis in Selma, Alabama ended… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…8 hours ago | HISTORY
- 'This translation fizzes with contemporary energy ... Such moments sent me back to the original poem to discover it… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…10 hours ago | HistoryToday
- Marcus Aurelius’ reign saw the empire menaced by threats and invasions, by persistent outbreaks of plague, and a ty… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…11 hours ago | HistoryToday
- 'The history of solitude reminds us that even the things we take for granted as universals have a past and a contex… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…12 hours ago | HistoryToday
- In the 1930s, bringing Stakhanovism to retail aimed to expand the parameters of socialism and assimilate a new demo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…12 hours ago | HistoryToday
- On #ThisDayInHistory in 1986, Georgia O’Keeffe, considered “the mother of American modernism,” died at the age of 9… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | HISTORY
- ‘Beowulf is not a quiet poem’.
It is ‘a dazzling, furious, funny, vicious, desperate, hungry, beautiful, mutinous… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | HistoryToday
- In the March issue:
Fancy Dress, Riot and Rebellion in Restoration London, Medieval Court Records, Zombies, Soviet… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | HistoryToday
- From 'the earliest proto-states of the Jewish-led Khazars and the Islamic Bolgars', a new book tells the 'stories o… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | HistoryToday