History On-Line Dramatic changes are underway in the electronic communications infrastructure worldwide. Academics are beginning to take advantage of the new opportunities. 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.
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. 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.