'In an increasingly digital world in which pedagogical trends are de-emphasizing rote learning and professors are...
see more
'In an increasingly digital world in which pedagogical trends are de-emphasizing rote learning and professors are increasingly turning toward active-learning exercises, scholars are fleeing traditional textbooks. Yet for those that still yearn for the safe tether of a synthetic text, as either narrative backbone or occasional reference material, The American Yawp offers a free and online, collaboratively built, open American history textbook designed for college-level history courses. Unchecked by profit motives or business models, and free from for-profit educational organizations, The American Yawp is by scholars, for scholars. All contributors—experienced college-level instructors—volunteer their expertise to help democratize the American past for twenty-first century classrooms.Many American history textbooks struggle to encapsulate American history. Some organize around themes—The American Promise, The Story of American Freedom—while others surrender to the impossibility of synthesis and retreat toward generality—America’s History, The American People. But in the oft-cited lines of the American poet Walt Whitman we find as good an organizing principle as any other: “I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable,” he wrote, “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.” Long before Whitman and long after, Americans have sung something collectively amid the deafening roar of their many individual voices. Here we find both, chorus and cacophony, together, as one. Always free, always open, this textbook offers the story of that barbaric, untranslatable American yawp.The American Yawp constructs a coherent and accessible narrative from all the best of recent historical scholarship. Without losing sight of politics and power, it incorporates transnational perspectives, integrates diverse voices, recovers narratives of resistance, and explores the complex process of cultural creation. It looks for America in crowded slave cabins, bustling markets, congested tenements, and marbled halls. It navigates between maternity wards, prisons, streets, bars, and boardrooms. Whitman’s America, like ours, cut across the narrow boundaries that strangle many narratives. Balancing academic rigor with popular readability, The American Yawp offers a multi-layered, democratic alternative to the American past.Over 300 contributors collaborated during the 2013-2014 academic year to produce text and images appropriate for college-level American history courses. A team of editors then streamlined material for an open beta launch during the 2014-2015 academic year, during which time the project will be open for use and users can offer feedback as they work through the project themselves. After another round of editing, the Yawp will be “published” in time for the 2015-2016 academic year. Text and visuals will be available online at www.AmericanYawp.com and offline as a free, downloadable e-book. A second, concurrent phase will then launch to broaden the project by incorporating additional media, interactive materials, and pedagogical resources, while allowing for a “living” project that engages emerging pedagogical trends and harnesses the collaborative potential of twenty-first century scholarship.'
Material Type:
Open Textbook
Author:
Joseph Locke, Co-Editor, Ben Wright, Co-Editor
Date Added:
Mar 11, 2015
Date Modified:
Aug 03, 2016
Pick a Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio to put this material in or scroll to the bottom to create a new Bookmark Collection
Name the Bookmark Collection to represent the materials you will add
Describe the Bookmark Collection so other MERLOT users will know what it contains and if it has value for their work or teaching. Other users can copy your Bookmark Collection to their own profile and modify it to save time.
Edit the information about the material in this {0}
Submitting Bookmarks...
Select this link to open drop down to add material The American Yawp to your Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio
Select this link to close drop down of your Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio for material The American Yawp
Select this link to open drop down to add material The American Yawp to your Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio
This is a companion site to the PBS documentary "The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow," a study of segregation and racial violence...
see more
This is a companion site to the PBS documentary "The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow," a study of segregation and racial violence from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the modern civil rights movement. The home page identifies this site as an "educator's site." In addition to a section on the television series, the site contains sections for history, geography, American literature, and teacher's resources. The three content sections include essays on a wide range of topics and links to lesson plans and resources. The teacher's resources section contains lesson plans, simulations, narratives from people who came of age during the Jim Crow era, an image gallery, a Jim Crow encyclopedia, and links to related web sites. The latter web sites were evaluated by teacher and student teams. The many lesson plans were submitted by teachers.
Material Type:
Tutorial
Author:
PBS
Date Added:
Jan 23, 2004
Date Modified:
Oct 17, 2015
Pick a Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio to put this material in or scroll to the bottom to create a new Bookmark Collection
Name the Bookmark Collection to represent the materials you will add
Describe the Bookmark Collection so other MERLOT users will know what it contains and if it has value for their work or teaching. Other users can copy your Bookmark Collection to their own profile and modify it to save time.
Edit the information about the material in this {0}
Submitting Bookmarks...
Select this link to open drop down to add material The History of Jim Crow to your Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio
Select this link to close drop down of your Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio for material The History of Jim Crow
Select this link to open drop down to add material The History of Jim Crow to your Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio
The Moonlit Road is an online storehouse of Southern culture and folklore.
Material Type:
Collection
Author:
Craig Dominey
Date Added:
May 05, 2008
Date Modified:
Sep 08, 2012
Pick a Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio to put this material in or scroll to the bottom to create a new Bookmark Collection
Name the Bookmark Collection to represent the materials you will add
Describe the Bookmark Collection so other MERLOT users will know what it contains and if it has value for their work or teaching. Other users can copy your Bookmark Collection to their own profile and modify it to save time.
Edit the information about the material in this {0}
Submitting Bookmarks...
Select this link to open drop down to add material The Moonlit Road to your Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio
Select this link to close drop down of your Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio for material The Moonlit Road
Select this link to open drop down to add material The Moonlit Road to your Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio
U.S. History published by OpenStax College provides educators and students with an excellent free open textbook that covers...
see more
U.S. History published by OpenStax College provides educators and students with an excellent free open textbook that covers the scope and sequence of U.S. History from pre-Columbian to the 21st Century.
Material Type:
Open Textbook
Author:
P. Scott Corbett, Volker Janseen, John Lund, Todd Pfannestiel, Paul Vickery, Sylvie Waskiewicz
Date Added:
Jan 12, 2015
Date Modified:
Aug 03, 2016
Pick a Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio to put this material in or scroll to the bottom to create a new Bookmark Collection
Name the Bookmark Collection to represent the materials you will add
Describe the Bookmark Collection so other MERLOT users will know what it contains and if it has value for their work or teaching. Other users can copy your Bookmark Collection to their own profile and modify it to save time.
Edit the information about the material in this {0}
Submitting Bookmarks...
Select this link to open drop down to add material U.S. History to your Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio
Select this link to close drop down of your Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio for material U.S. History
Select this link to open drop down to add material U.S. History to your Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio
The course provides the students a basic understanding of modern Israeli history, politics, culture and identity through...
see more
The course provides the students a basic understanding of modern Israeli history, politics, culture and identity through lectures, discussions and projects. Among the topics to be explored are: ideational, institutional and material foundations of the state of Israel; Israeli national identity, Israeli society, economy, and foreign and security policies.
Material Type:
Online Course
Author:
Dr. Ehud Eiran
Date Added:
Aug 06, 2014
Date Modified:
Jul 07, 2015
Pick a Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio to put this material in or scroll to the bottom to create a new Bookmark Collection
Name the Bookmark Collection to represent the materials you will add
Describe the Bookmark Collection so other MERLOT users will know what it contains and if it has value for their work or teaching. Other users can copy your Bookmark Collection to their own profile and modify it to save time.
Edit the information about the material in this {0}
Submitting Bookmarks...
Select this link to open drop down to add material 17.565 Israel: History, Politics, Culture, and Identity (MIT) to your Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio
Select this link to close drop down of your Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio for material 17.565 Israel: History, Politics, Culture, and Identity (MIT)
Select this link to open drop down to add material 17.565 Israel: History, Politics, Culture, and Identity (MIT) to your Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio
This subject surveys main currents of European cultural and intellectual history in the modern period. Such a foundation...
see more
This subject surveys main currents of European cultural and intellectual history in the modern period. Such a foundation course is central to the humanities in Europe. The curriculum introduces a set of ideas and arguments that have played a formative role in European cultural history, and acquaints them with some exemplars of critical thought. Among the topics to be considered: the critique of religion, the promise of independence, the advance of capitalism, the temptations of Marxism, the origins of totalitarianism, and the dialects of enlightenment. In addition to texts, we will also discuss pieces of art, incl. paintings and film.
Material Type:
Online Course
Author:
Prof. Thomas Nolden
Date Added:
Jun 09, 2011
Date Modified:
Jun 29, 2016
Pick a Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio to put this material in or scroll to the bottom to create a new Bookmark Collection
Name the Bookmark Collection to represent the materials you will add
Describe the Bookmark Collection so other MERLOT users will know what it contains and if it has value for their work or teaching. Other users can copy your Bookmark Collection to their own profile and modify it to save time.
Edit the information about the material in this {0}
Submitting Bookmarks...
Select this link to open drop down to add material 21F.059 European Thought and Culture to your Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio
Select this link to close drop down of your Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio for material 21F.059 European Thought and Culture
Select this link to open drop down to add material 21F.059 European Thought and Culture to your Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio
This interdisciplinary course surveys modern European culture to disclose the alignment of literature, opposition, and...
see more
This interdisciplinary course surveys modern European culture to disclose the alignment of literature, opposition, and revolution. Reaching back to the foundational representations of anarchism in nineteenth-century Europe (Kleist, Conrad) the curriculum extends through the literary and media representations of militant organizations in the 1970s and 80s (Italy's Red Brigade, Germany's Red Army Faction, and the Real Irish Republican Army). In the middle of the term students will have the opportunity to hear a lecture by Margarethe von Trotta, one of the most important filmmakers who has worked on terrorism. The course concludes with a critical examination of the ways that certain segments of European popular media have returned to the "radical chic" that many perceive to have exhausted itself more than two decades ago.
Material Type:
Online Course
Author:
Prof. Charity Scribner
Date Added:
Jun 09, 2011
Date Modified:
Jun 29, 2016
Pick a Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio to put this material in or scroll to the bottom to create a new Bookmark Collection
Name the Bookmark Collection to represent the materials you will add
Describe the Bookmark Collection so other MERLOT users will know what it contains and if it has value for their work or teaching. Other users can copy your Bookmark Collection to their own profile and modify it to save time.
Edit the information about the material in this {0}
Submitting Bookmarks...
Select this link to open drop down to add material 21F.061 Advanced Topics: Plotting Terror in European Culture to your Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio
Select this link to close drop down of your Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio for material 21F.061 Advanced Topics: Plotting Terror in European Culture
Select this link to open drop down to add material 21F.061 Advanced Topics: Plotting Terror in European Culture to your Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio
Dentons work was the first English account intended to promote settlement of the region recently seized from the Dutch. It...
see more
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.
Material Type:
Reference Material
Author:
Daniel Denton
Date Added:
Feb 28, 2006
Date Modified:
Feb 06, 2008
Pick a Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio to put this material in or scroll to the bottom to create a new Bookmark Collection
Name the Bookmark Collection to represent the materials you will add
Describe the Bookmark Collection so other MERLOT users will know what it contains and if it has value for their work or teaching. Other users can copy your Bookmark Collection to their own profile and modify it to save time.
Edit the information about the material in this {0}
Submitting Bookmarks...
Select this link to open drop down to add material A Brief Description of New-York: Formerly Called New-Netherlands (1670) to your Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio
Select this link to close drop down of your Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio for material A Brief Description of New-York: Formerly Called New-Netherlands (1670)
Select this link to open drop down to add material A Brief Description of New-York: Formerly Called New-Netherlands (1670) to your Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio
This is a free, open textbook that is part of the Connexions collection at Rice University. According to the author, "The...
see more
This is a free, open textbook that is part of the Connexions collection at Rice University. According to the author, "The structure of the work is innovative. Each chapter covers a period of historical time (e.g. a century). Sections within chapters describe what was going on in every geographical region of the world; each section provides a reference for that region in the subsequent chapter, i.e. in the next time period. The reader can thus get a snapshot of the entire world at a point in time by reading one chapter, or can follow the history of a region through time by linking to sections in successive chapters. This modular, linked structure is ideally suited to web-based online implementation, especially to the Connexions platform. I am pleased to make this content available on Connexions for the enjoyment and enlightenment of everyone with an interest in the history of our world.״
Material Type:
Open Textbook
Author:
Jack E. Maxfield
Date Added:
Apr 02, 2010
Date Modified:
Jan 06, 2016
Pick a Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio to put this material in or scroll to the bottom to create a new Bookmark Collection
Name the Bookmark Collection to represent the materials you will add
Describe the Bookmark Collection so other MERLOT users will know what it contains and if it has value for their work or teaching. Other users can copy your Bookmark Collection to their own profile and modify it to save time.
Edit the information about the material in this {0}
Submitting Bookmarks...
Select this link to open drop down to add material A Comprehensive Outline of World History (Organized by Region) to your Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio
Select this link to close drop down of your Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio for material A Comprehensive Outline of World History (Organized by Region)
Select this link to open drop down to add material A Comprehensive Outline of World History (Organized by Region) to your Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio
The history of the Berlin Wall, from its creation to its destruction :An exhibition comprising around a hundred photographsA...
see more
The history of the Berlin Wall, from its creation to its destruction :An exhibition comprising around a hundred photographsA detailed presentation of the Berlin Wall
Material Type:
Presentation
Author:
Cyril Buffet
Date Added:
May 30, 2005
Date Modified:
Sep 24, 2013
Pick a Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio to put this material in or scroll to the bottom to create a new Bookmark Collection
Name the Bookmark Collection to represent the materials you will add
Describe the Bookmark Collection so other MERLOT users will know what it contains and if it has value for their work or teaching. Other users can copy your Bookmark Collection to their own profile and modify it to save time.
Edit the information about the material in this {0}
Submitting Bookmarks...
Select this link to open drop down to add material A Concrete Curtain: The Life and Death of the Berlin Wall to your Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio
Select this link to close drop down of your Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio for material A Concrete Curtain: The Life and Death of the Berlin Wall
Select this link to open drop down to add material A Concrete Curtain: The Life and Death of the Berlin Wall to your Bookmark Collection or Course ePortfolio
Prev
