History Scholars and the Web

Communication:

Listservs, newsgroups, webgroups

• UVM's listserv archives and newsgroups
  
  
• H-Net - began as a group of history listservs, expanded to include humanities subjects, and now has a growing collection of related resources. Includes H-Grad and H-Teach.
  
  
• Diane Kovacs Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences - the comprehensive guide to scholarly discussion groups, this site lets you search for a discussion group by keyword, subject, or name. It describes each group, and provides contact and subscription information.
  
  
• Rob Kabacoff's collection of "Lists of Lists" - one of the largest, it allows you to search several other collections of lists.
  

Research:

• Collections: CERN History Resources, Voice of the Shuttle, American Studies, Medieval Studies (includes link to the Labyrinth), World History, general history links. Text Collections: my favorite is at the University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center, but the Voice of the Shuttle and Project Runeberg list many others
  
  
• Some reference works: Roget's Thesaurus, Strunk's Elements of Style, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Merriam-Webster Dictionary (with built-in thesaurus), and the Hypertext Webster. Other multilanguage translation dictionaries are available at Yahoo: Reference: Dictionaries.
  
  
• Web Guides: Yahoo, Magellan, Lycos
  
  
• Global searching: the above plus: AltaVista, Excite, WebCrawler, Starting Point, Net Search
  
  
• Sageunix, UVMs electronic libraries' gateway [web page] [telnet]

Scholarship:

• Projects, projects, projects: IATH, American Revolution, and hundreds more listed at the Voice of the Shuttle
  
  
• Electronic Theses and Dissertations
  
  
• Journals: Essays in History (UVA), Project Muse, Renaissance Forum, History Reviews On-line, Postmodern Culture, Chronicon, and many more
  

Teaching:

• Set up an e-mail discussion list at UVM
  
  
• Paula Hammett's Tips for successful use of listservs in the classroom
  
  
• Course web sites and syllabi: HP 203, SOC 150, REL 95, NUSC 237, CLAS 42, ENG 330, ANTH 196 . . . or search from the UVM Search Page on the word "syllabus"
  
  
• Student Portfolios: whys and wherefores and an example
  
  
• teaching resources from the Voice of the Shuttle