__NOTOC__ H-Net ("Humanities & Social Sciences Online") is an interdisciplinary forum for scholars in the

humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at t ...

and

social sciences Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of so ...

. It is best known for hosting

electronic mailing list A mailing list is a collection of names and addresses used by an individual or an organization to send material to multiple recipients. The term is often extended to include the people subscribed to such a list, so the group of subscribers is re ...

s organized by

academic discipline An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...

s; according to the organization's website, H-Net lists reach over 200,000 subscribers in more than 90 countries. The H-Net Network has grown until it is now endorsed by many academic professional organizations. Its over 180 topic- or discipline-specific lists are often the primary internet forum for scholars. Individual lists are edited by a team of scholars and each has a board of editors. H-Net is hosted by the Department of History at

Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the first of its kind in the United States. It ...

Online services

In addition to its email lists, H-Net provides three related online services: *H-Net Reviews: 46,000+ reviews of books and other publications, commissioned and published on its website and through its

listserv The term Listserv (styled by the registered trademark licensee, L-Soft International, Inc., as LISTSERV) has been used to refer to electronic mailing list software applications in general, but is more properly applied to a few early instances o ...

s *H-Net Job Guide: academic position announcements, available on its website and through email *H-Net Academic Announcements: announcements of academic conferences, calls for papers, and programs

Discussion networks

Many of the lists deal with various areas of historical study. Within two years of its founding, H-Net was recognized as being "among the most dynamic and effective contributions" to the internationalization of scholarship.

History

H-Net began in 1992 as an initiative of Prof.

Richard J. Jensen Richard Joseph Jensen (born October 24, 1941) is an American historian, who was professor of history at the University of Illinois, Chicago, from 1973 to 1996. He has worked on American political, social, military, and economic history as well as ...

of the History department at the

University of Illinois at Chicago The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a public research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. The second campus established under the University of Illinois ...

, to assist 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."Richard Jensen, "H-Net announces 13 new scholarly lists in history,
E-Mail of 24 Jun 1993
Thomas Zielke, "Official Introduction of The History Network

H-Net is now organized as an international consortium of scholars in the humanities and social sciences and its networks are hosted by

. In 2010, the H-Net president is historian Jean A. Stuntz of West Texas A&M University.

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References

* Matthew Gilmore
"H-Net: Digital Discussion for Historians"
''Perspectives: The Newsletter of the American Historical Association'', 45: 5 (May 2007). * Richard J. Jensen

(1997). A discussion of H-Net and its origins from the perspective of the founder. * Mark Lawrence Kornbluh
"H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine,"
''Perspectives: The Newsletter of the American Historical Association'', 37: 2 (February 1999). * Joel D. Kitchens
"Clio on the Web: An Annotated Bibliography of Select E-Journals for History,"
''Perspectives: The Newsletter of the American Historical Association'', 38: 2 (Feb. 2000). * John McClymer
''The AHA Guide to Teaching and Learning with New Media''
(Washington:

The American Historical Association The American Historical Association (AHA) is the oldest professional association of historians in the United States and the largest such organization in the world. Founded in 1884, the AHA works to protect academic freedom, develop professional s ...

), 2005. * Andrew McMichael
"The Historian, the Internet, and the Web: A Reassessment,"
''Perspectives: The Newsletter of the American Historical Association'', 36: 2 (Feb. 1998). * Jeremy D. Popkin,
From Herodotus to H-Net: The Story of Historiography
'' (Oxford UP, 2015, ). {{refend

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