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History Scholars and the Web
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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:
Compiled by Hope
Greenberg, hope.greenberg@uvm.edu. 19 September 1997.