Community

I reviewed a discussion entitled “Most Influential Events in American History” on the History Channel’s website http://boards.historychannel.com/forum.jsp?forum=30069. While most of the proposed events appear to be typical responses - most involve major events such as wars, inventions, assassinations and Presidential... More

H-SAfrica

H-SAfrica’s visibility through the well-known H-Net name, accessibility, and opportunity for off-list personal relationships render it a “real community” for scholars (and lurkers) interested in South Africa. It has clearly defined the rules for its community, and it functions as... More

Community

H-Radhist H-Radhist is an online discussion site dedicated to the discussing “historical, theoretical and political issues that routinely emerge from the study of history from a radical perspective, in which knowledge of the past is informed by the commitment... More

H-OIEAHC on h-net

I choose to review H-OIEAHC, a discussion community on h-net that is dedicated to Early Colonial American Culture. H-net is an “international consortium of scholars in the humanities and social sciences” which sponsors a number of scholarly discussion communities. This... More

Community

I examined the History-Net virtual community on the 1960's. This forum for "discussion of the history and legacy of the 1960's, both nationally and internationally" is of relatively recent vintage, having been launched in March this year. The list editor,... More

Community

The History Channel’s Cold War Discussion Board is a forum for discussing all aspects of the Cold War Era during which the United States and Soviet Union had an openly adversarial relationship. The discussion group has been active since at... More

J-History Community

The J-History community on H-Net is best summarized as an extension of the existing academic organizations for Journalism History. The members are primarily those who would join the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) History Division or... More

Online Communities

For the historical comminutes blog, I looked at several forums on women’s history. I must first admit that forums in general confuse me, so it took a few tries to find something that I could use to answer the questions.... More

Is H-War a Community?

I observed the H-Net list H-War over the past week. According to the H-War web page on H-Net, the discussion list “encourages scholarly discussion of world military history and makes available diverse bibliographical, research and teaching aids.” The list membership,... More

Community

As of November 24, 2004, Google’s online community Early Modern Social History boasted “about 123,000 threads” covering topics ranging from “Stupid Battles of History” to the “Definition of Humanism” to “The First Secular Humanist State was not Revolutionary France.”... More

H-Net Rhetor

The H-Net Discussion Network’s H-Rhetor online discussion group provides a forum to discuss rhetoric, communications studies, and teaching. Its membership appears to be composed of a very specialized community of university faculty who teach rhetoric, literary theory, communications, and history.... More

Community

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ONLINE DISCUSSION: H-FILM

I did a survey of all of the discussion entries on H-Film during the months of June, September, and November 2004. Over one hundred entries were examined. Who is involved in the discussion? H-Film claims to be an "international electronic... More

Community_Mary_Nov28

H-Teach H-Teach is a forum for teaching policy, practices and techniques rather than the subject matter of history. Participants are mostly college teachers. Messages are organized by month with relatively few messages during summer months. Without doing a count, it... More

On-line Discussion Groups

Report from the field on Online Discussion Groups H-Net Discussion Group H-SHEAR list, The Early American Republic Months reviewed: June, August, and September 2004 Who is involved in the discussion? Who are the members of the discussion community? Mainly college... More