Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 20:07:48 -0600 (CST) From: heikki emil lempa <helempa@midway.uchicago.edu> To: H-verkko <H-VERKKO@sara.cc.utu.fi> Subject: NEW H-NET LIST: H-USA (fwd)
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 11:45:32 -0500 From: Martin Ryle <RYLE@urvax.urich.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list H-RUSSIA <H-RUSSIA@MSU.EDU> Subject: NEW H-NET LIST: H-USA
H-Net: Humanities On-Line announces a new network:
H-USA
for the international study of the United States.
H-USA is an Internet forum for the international study of the United States. H-USA is designed to serve teachers, scholars, journalists and advanced students worldwide--and especially in Japan. H-USA is cosponsored by H-NET and the Kansai Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at Osaka University of Foreign Studies. It is funded by the Center for Global Partnership program of the Japan Foundation (Tokyo).
The primary purpose for H-USA is to enable teachers interested in American Studies and American history to obtain accurate information from scholars, and to discuss the meaning of current and historical events. We will facilitate "pen pal" arrangements between classes in the USA and other countries.
H-USA will be entirely non-partisan and non-polemical. It will be friendly and informal--the editors will help people for whom English is not their first language. H-USA will feature questions and answers about the United States. In 1996 it will feature discussions on the Presidential election. H-USA will discuss new articles, books, papers, approaches, methods and tools of analysis; it will disseminate bibliographies, discuss new ideas and share syllabi and tips on teaching. It will commission original reviews of new books, movies, television programs, videos, museum exhibits, textbooks, CD-ROMS, computer software, and other teaching materials. H-USA is edited by a team of eight scholars in Japan, the USA and Europe, and has an international editorial board. Many items will be crossposted from other H-NET lists which deal with advanced topics in American culture.
H-USA will try to stimulate high level academic dialogues. Subscribers will write in with questions, comments, and reports. We are especially interested in reaching college and high school faculty who teach courses on American history, American Studies, American literature or the English language. H-USA will therefore actively solicit syllabi, reading lists, termpaper guides, ideas on videos, slides and software, and tips and comments that will be of use to the teacher who wants to add a single lecture, or an entire course.
To subscribe: send this email message to LISTSERV@h-net.msu.edu sub H-USA firstname surname, school Example: sub H-USA Leslie Jones, Southern Jersey U.
You will receive a subscription form asking for name, address and interests. When this form is returned the editors will add you to the list.
1. For information in Japanese, please email or write or phone: Yoneyuki SUGITA Osaka U. of Foreign Studies 8-1-1 Aomadani-Higashi Minoh-City, Osaka 562 FAX/Phone: 0727-30-5416 email: sugita@post01.osaka-gaidai.ac.jp
2. For other questions write co-editor Brad Burke: BURKE@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU
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