H-Net: Humanities On-line
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H-NET: HUMANITIES ON-LINE
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H-Net Announces 70 Scholarly Lists for Humanists
& Social Scientists
August 19, 1995 please circulate
The Information Revolution is bringing dramatic changes in the
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
scholars to go on-line, using their personal computers. We operate
daily newsletters edited by some 140 scholars in North America,
Europe, Africa, and the Pacific.
H-Net sponsors 70 electronic discussion groups or "lists" by
and for professional scholars in the humanities and social
sciences. Subscribers automatically receive messages in their
computer mailboxes. These messages can be saved, discarded,
downloaded to a PC, copied, printed out, or relayed to someone
else. Best of all, the reader can immediately REPLY. The lists
are email newsletters that are published daily. There is currently
no subscription charge or fee of any kind.
H-Net lists reach over 30,000 subscribers in 61 countries.
Each lists publishes 15-60 messages a week. Subscription
applications are solicited from scholars, college professors,
researchers, graduate students, librarians and archivists. Each
list is edited by a team of scholars and has a board of editors;
most of the lists are cosponsored by a professional society. The
editors control the flow of messages, commission reviews, and
reject flames and items unsuitable for a scholarly discussion
group. They also control H-Net, which has financial support from
the National Endowment for the Humanities, and is hosted by
Michigan State University, the University of Illinois-Chicago, and
several other schools.
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. H-Net was created to provide a positive,
supportive, equalitarian environment for the friendly exchange of
ideas and scholarly resources. The lists feature dialogues in the
discipline. They commission original book and museum reviews, and
post job announcements, syllabi, course outlines, class handouts,
bibliographies, listings of new sources, guides to online library
catalogs and Internet resources, and reports on new software,
datasets, cd-roms and World Wide Web sites. Regular reports from
Washington cover developments that affect the humanities.
Subscribers write in with questions, comments, and reports, and
sometimes with mini-essays of a page or two. The logs of all
messages are permanently saved and can easily be searched.
Important items are permanently stored for easy access via gopher
and [soon] WWW.
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H-Net Lists
For these lists, send subscribe message to
LISTSERV@uicvm.uic.edu
1. H-Antis antisemitism
2. H-Ideas intellectual history
3. H-Italy Italian history and culture
4. H-Urban urban history
5. HOLOCAUS Holocaust studies
6. IEAHCnet colonial; 17-18 century Americas
For these lists, send subscribe message to LISTSERV@msu.edu
7. H-Africa African history
8. H-Albion British and Irish history
9. H-AmRel American religious history
10. H-AmStdy American studies
11. H-Asia Asian studies & history
12. H-Canada Canadian history & studies
13. H-CivWar US Civil War
14. H-CLC comparative literature & computing
15. H-Demog demographic history
16. H-Diplo diplomatic history, international affairs
17. H-Ethnic ethnic, immigration & emigration studies
18. H-Film scholarly studies & uses of media
19. H-German German history
20. H-Grad for graduate students only
21. H-High-S teaching high school history/social studies
22. H-Judaic Judaica, Jewish History
23. H-Labor labor history
24. H-LatAm Latin American history
25. H-Law legal and constitutional history
26. H-Local state and local history & museums
27. H-Mac Macintosh users
28. H-MMedia high tech teaching; multimedia; cd-rom
29. H-NZ-OZ New Zealand & Australian history
30. H-PCAACA Popular Culture Assoc. & American Culture Assoc
31. H-Review H-Net book reviews [reviews only, no discussions]
32. H-Rhetor history of rhetoric & communications
33. H-Rural rural and agricultural history
34. H-Russia Russian history
35. H-SAE European anthropology
36. H-SHGAPE US Gilded Age & Progressive Era
37. H-South US South
38. H-Survey teaching US Survey
39. H-State welfare state; "putting the state back in"
40. H-Teach teaching college history
41. H-W-Civ teaching Western Civ
42. H-West US West, frontiers
43. H-Women women's history
44. H-World world history & world survey texts
For these lists, send subscribe to LISTSERV@KSUVM.KSU.EDU
45. H-Pol American politics
46. H-War military history
For these lists, send subscribe to LISTSERV@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU
47. H-France French history
48. Habsburg Austro-Hungarian Empire
For this affiliated list (reviews only, no discussion), write
Listserv@listserv.acns.nwu.edu
49. LPBR-L Law & Politics Book Review
for this affiliated list write to h-mexico@servidor.unam.mx
50. H-MEXICO Mexican history and studies
For these affiliated Cliometric Society lists, send
subscribe message to lists@cs.muohio.edu
51. H-Business business history [cosposored by H-Net]
52. Databases design & management of historical databases
53. EH.RES economic history short research notes & queries
54. EH.DISC economic history extended discussion
55. EH.NEWS economic history news, announcements
56. EconHist.Macro macroeconomic history, business cycles
57. EconHist.Student students & faculty in economic history
58. EconHist.Teach teaching economic history
59. Global.change economic history dimensions of global change
60. Quanhist.recurrent comparative recurrent phenomena
Planning stage: (fall 1995) [do not subscribe yet]
61. H-Af-Am African American studies
62. H-AmInt American intellectual history
63. APPALNET Appalachian studies
64. H-Japan Japanese studies
65. H-MusTex lyrical texts; opera
66. H-RenRef Renaissance-Reformation
67. H-SHEAR Early American Republic
68. H-Skand Scandinavian history & culture
69. H-UCLEA Labor Studies
70. H-Ukrain Ukrainian studies
H-Net Gophers: try the H-NET gopher at U of Illinois-Chicago
GOPHER uic.edu then try: 10 researcher/19 history/1 H-Net
H-Net's WWW home page: coming soon.
To subscribe: send this 1-line email message to
LISTSERV@msu.edu (or to the listserv address given)
SUBSCRIBE H-xxxx Firstname Surname, Affiliation
where H-xxxx = list name; for example, send this to
LISTSERV@msu.edu
subscribe H-TEACH Terry Smith, Northern State U.
[Note: no comma after H-TEACH; abbreviate U = university]
You will get a computer generated response, followed soon by
a short questionnaire (name, address, teaching and research
interests). The editors will sign you up when you return it.
The messages will automatically arrive in your mailbox.
To send an announcement or a job ad to the lists, send
it to H-NET@uicvm.uic.edu. The Job Guide appears
weekly. Ads are free; we especially solicit part-time,
temporary, adjunct and non-teaching appointments.
For detailed information on H-Net, send this message to
Listserv@uicvm.uic.edu
get H-NET WHATIS
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or call Richard Jensen, the Executive Director 615-552-9923
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