HISTGRAD history lists on-line (fwd)

heikki emil lempa (helempa@midway.uchicago.edu)
Wed, 12 Oct 1994 08:46:46 -0500 (CDT)


Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 08:46:46 -0500 (CDT)
From: heikki emil lempa <helempa@midway.uchicago.edu>
To: H-verkko <H-VERKKO@sara.cc.utu.fi>
Subject: HISTGRAD history lists on-line (fwd)

Niille h-verkon jasenille, jotka viela eivat ole sattuneet yhyttamaan itselleen h-netin osoitetta ja listaa, laitan Elizabeth Dale'n yhteenvedon. Minulla on kokemuksia vain h-germany'sta ja ei se nyt kauhean kohahduttavaa ole. Mutta kai me historioitsijat olemme vahan tammoisia maan hiljaisia, vaikka h-verkko osoittaakin aivan toista. Todennakoista kuitenkin on, etta parin lahivuoden aikana h-netista tulee melkoisen iso ja vaikutusvaltainen foorumi. Johtuen mm. rahasta, jota tuntuu piisaavan...

Heikki Lempa

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 12 Oct 94 8:32:24 CDT From: elizabeth ruth dale <erd1@midway.uchicago.edu> To: histgrad@listhost.uchicago.edu Subject: HISTGRAD history lists on-line

For those of you who are not aware of the h-net discussion lists, I attach the most recent announcement about what it is and how it works.

Elizabeth Dale

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H-NET: HUMANITIES ON-LINE

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H-Net Announces 42 Scholarly Lists for Humanists

September 12, 1994 please circulate

I. The Information Revolution is happening now. Dramatic changes are underway in the electronic communications infrastructure worldwide, especially the Internet system that links academics together in a fast, free and friendly environment. H-Net is an international initiative to assist humanists to go on-line, using their personal computers. It operates daily newsletters for humanists, moderated by some 80 scholars in the US, Australia, Canada, Italy and Japan. H-Net has financial support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and is hosted by the University of Illinois-Chicago and Michigan State University. II. H-Net sponsors 41 electronic discussion groups or "lists" by and for professional scholars in the humanities. Subscribers automatically receive messages in their computer mailboxes. These messages can be saved, discarded, downloaded to a PC, copied, printed out, posted to local bulletin boards, or relayed to someone else. Best of all, the reader can immediately REPLY. The lists are email newsletters that are published daily. Currently our lists have 15,000 subscribers in 51 countries. They receive an average of 15-40 messages a week. Subscription applications are solicited from scholars, college professors and graduate students. We especially welcome librarians and archivists. Each list is moderated by one or more scholars and has a board of editors. The moderators control the flow of messages and reject those unsuitable for a scholarly discussion group. The goals of H-NET lists are to enable scholars to easily communicate current research and teaching interests; to discuss new approaches, methods and tools of analysis; to share information on electronic databases; and to test new ideas and share comments on current historiography. Each list is especially interested in methods of teaching in diverse settings. The lists feature dialogues in the discipline. They publish book reviews, job announcements, syllabi, course outlines, class handouts, bibliographies, listings of new sources, guides to online library catalogs and archives, and reports on new software, datasets and cd-roms. Subscribers write in with questions, comments, and reports, and sometimes with mini-essays of a page or two. Regarding Book Reviews, please contact Professor Mark Kornbluh, dept of History, dept of History Michigan State U, East Lansing MI 48224. (517) 355-7500, fax = (517) 353-5599 Internet = H-NET@uicvm.uic.edu. H-Net operates 2-day training workshops for humanities faculty on their campuses, and one-day workshops for NEH Summer Institutes for College Faculty. Interested college departments should contact H-NET's Executive Director, Richard Jensen (professor of history, U of Illinois- Chicago), at (615) 552-9923, fax = (615) 572-1024 email = Richard.Jensen@uicvm.uic.edu.

III. The H-Net lists in operation are: [@msu.edu = Michigan State lists; others = @uicvm.uic.edu] 1. H-Albion British and Irish history 2. H-AmStdy American Studies 3. H-AntiS Antisemitism 4. H-Asia Asian History 5. H-CivWar US Civil War 6. H-Diplo diplomatic history, foreign affairs 7. H-Ethnic ethnic & immigration history 8. H-Film scholarly studies & uses of media 9. H-German German history 10. H-Grad for graduate students only 11. H-Ideas intellectual history 12. H-Italy Italian history and culture 13. H-Labor labor history 14. H-LatAm Latin American History 15. H-Law legal and constitutional history 16. H-Mac@msu.edu Macintosh users 17. H-Pol US political history 18. H-PCAACA Popular Culture Assoc & American Culture Assoc. 19. H-Rhetor history of rhetoric & communications 20. H-Rural rural and agricultural history 21. H-Russia Russian history 22. H-SHGAPE US Gilded Age & Progressive Era 23. H-South US South 24. H-State Welfare State; "putting state back in" 25. H-Survey@msu.edu Teaching US Survey 26. H-Teach teaching college history 27. H-Urban urban history 28. H-W-Civ@msu.edu Teaching Western Civ 29. H-Women women's history 30. H-World@msu.edu World History & world survey texts 31. HOLOCAUS Holocaust studies 32. IEAHCnet Colonial America

Affiliated email lists: HABSBURG@purccvm Austro-Hungarian Empire ECONHIST@MIAMIU.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU Economic History

Planning stage: (fall 1994) 33. H-Africa African History 34. H-Bus Business history 35. H-Demog Demographic history 36. H-France French History 37. H-Japan Japanese history & culture 38. H-Local State and local history 39. H-MMedia@msu.edu High tech teaching; multimedia; cd-rom 40. H-NZ-OZ New Zealand & Australian history 41. H-War Military History 42. H-West US West, Frontier

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