From: RICHARD JENSEN Subject: H-Net Announces 13 Scholarly History E-Lists June 24, 1993 H-Net: History On-Line Dramatic changes are underway in the electronic communications infrastructure worldwide. Academics are beginning to take advantage of the new opportunities. H-Net is an initiative of the History department at the University of Illinois, Chicago, to assist historians to go on-line, using their personal computers and the Internet and Bitnet electronic communications networks. H-Net is sponsoring a series of electronic discussion groups or "lists." Subscribers automatically receive messages in their computer mailboxes. These messages can be saved, discarded, copied, printed out, or relayed to someone else. The lists are like newsletters that are published daily, and which carry announcements from the editor, and letters and mini-essays from the subscribers. Currently our largest list is HOLOCAUS with 290 subscribers in 15 countries; they receive an average of 5 messages a day. Membership is open to any historian or graduate student, and is free. Each list is moderated by a historian and has a board of editors. The moderators control the flow of messages and reject those unsuitable for a scholarly discussion group. The primary purpose of each list is to enable historians to easily communicate current research and teaching interests; to discuss new approaches, methods and tools of analysis; to share information on access to library catalogs and other electronic databases; and to test new ideas and share comments on current historiography. Each list is especially interested in methods of teaching history to graduate and undergraduate students in diverse settings. The lists feature dialogues in the discipline. They publish 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. Most of the lists have no chronological or geographical limits. The H-Net lists currently in operation are: H-Urban Urban history H-Rural Rural and agricultural history H-Women Women's history H-Diplo Diplomatic history, foreign affairs, international relations HOLOCAUS Holocaust studies; anti-semitism; related themes of modern history H-South US South H-CivWar US Civil War H-LatAm Latin American History H-Law Legal and Constitutional history H-Ethnic American ethnic & immigration history by July 4: H-AmStdy American Studies H-Ideas Intellectual history beginning fall 1993: IEAHC-Net American colonial history; sponsored by Institute of Early American History & Culture at Williamsburg Other lists are being discussed; to volunteer as editor or member of an editorial board, please send a note to H-NET@uicvm. Each list will publish (at no cost) announcements of jobs, fellowships, conferences, conventions, new books, new journals, new e-lists, and the like. To post an announcement to all the H-Net lists, send an email copy: by Bitnet to H-NET@uicvm or by Internet to H-NET@uicvm.uic.edu or by CompuServe to >INTERNET:H-NET@UICVM.UIC.EDU or send a fax copy to (312) 996-6377, care of H-Net. Each list will publish book reviews. To volunteer as a reviewer send a note to the editor at @uicvm (For example, H-URBAN@uicvm or H-LatAm@uicvm). To submit books for review, or for other paper correspondence, write to H-Net room 723 SEO Dept of History m/c 198 851 S Morgan St Chicago IL 60607-7049 [our phone is: 312-996-3141 our fax: 312-996-6377] H-Net will be offering one-day training workshops at history conventions and at history departments across the country. It has been endorsed by the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association, and has received funding from the American Council of Learned Societies. H-Net is directed by Richard Jensen, professor of history at UIC u08946@uicvm voice: 615-552-9923 =========================================================