Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 12:14:06 -0700 From: Gretchen Adams-Bond <gabond@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU> To: H-VERKKO@sara.cc.utu.fi Subject: FYI: Announcing the MINERVA List (NON-H-NET)
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 09:07:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Linda Grant De Pauw, George Washington U. <MinervaCen@AOL.COM> ******************************************************************* Co-Editor's Note: This notice is x-posted from IEAHCnet, H-Net's American Colonial history list. MINERVA is a non-H-Net list operated by George Washington University. Currently, a thread is building on women in the American Revolution which may be of interest to those studying women's, military and Revolutionary Era history. Gretchen Adams-Bond H-Grad Co-Editor ********************************************************************
Announcing the MINERVA List Discussion on women and the military and women in war. This list is sponsored by The MINERVA Center, Inc., a non-profit educational foundation devoted to promoting the study of women and the military and women in war.
Since 1983, the Center has pursued its mission through print publication. We have two quarterly periodicals:_MINERVA: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military_which carries major articles by historians,sociologists, political scientists and other scholars as well as contributions from independent researchers, oral histories, bibliographies, and occassionally short stories and poetry. The second publication is_Minerva's Bulletin Board_, an international news magazine on women and the military which carries brief news items from around the world as well as a column of Letters to MINERVA and a regular column contributed by WANDAS.
The MINERVA Center also publishes books. In 1994 we published Lauren Cook Burgess, ed., _An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman,alias Private Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers_, which will have a paperback edition released by Oxford University Press this fall. In December we will publish C. Kay Larson, _'Til We Come Marching Home: A Brief History of American Women in World War II_.
Linda Grant De Pauw, the President of The MINERVA Center, is also Professor of History at The George Washington University, which is the only institution offering graduate training in the women's military history specialty. This list has been given a jump start by the students currently enrolled in her Reading Seminar on Women and War who were the first to sign on in September.
The MINERVA list is open to anyone with a serious interest in its subject matter and encourages a variety of contributions. We offer a forum for exchange between scholars and for the current concerns of active duty women and women veterans (including "civilian" veterans like members of the Red Cross and military wives). We are eager to receive personal memories,inquiries, unsolicited book reviews, information on meetings, and cross-postings from other parts of cyberspace.
MINERVA is a moderated list, that is, it is edited to filter out extraneous messages (like requests to subscribe) or items that do not belong on the list because they are not relevant to our subject matter. We will also edit out "flames" or other material that does not contribute to The MINERVA Center's mission to provide "information and inspiration."
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