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Welcome to H-W-Civ

H-W-CIV is an international electronic discussion group, a forum for scholars to easily communicate current research and teaching interests, to discuss new approaches, methods and tools of analysis, to test new ideas and to share comments on current historiography. Subscription is free and subscribers automatically receive messages in their computer mailboxes. Messages can be saved, discarded, copied, printed out, or relayed to someone else. It is like a newsletter that is free and published daily.

The primary purpose of H-W-CIV is to enable historians more easily to discuss research interests, teaching methods and the state of historiography. H-W-CIV is especially interested in methods of teaching history to undergraduate students in diverse settings.

H-W-CIV features dialogues in the discipline, publishes syllabi, outlines, handouts, bibliographies, tables of contents of journals, guides to term papers, listings of new sources, library catalogs and archives, and reports on new software, datasets and cd-roms. Subscribers write in with questions, comments and reports. H-W-CIV posts announcements of conferences, fellowships and jobs. It carries information about new books and commissions book reviews. Items posted on H-W-CIV are in the public domain, and may be copied, forwarded, re-disseminated, and/or downloaded provided credit is given to the original author.

H-W-CIV is a moderated discussion list. The editors are advised by an international editorial board broadly representative of the state of scholarship. In cases of contentious messages to the list, the editor on duty may consult with the co-editors and the editorial board to reach a decision whether to post, which will be final. H-W-CIV is non-partisan and will refrain from posting calls for political action. Where list members disagree, their messages should focus on the issues and not on persons. In certain cases, the editors may refer a message back to the contributor either to clarify the content or to focus the issue more closely on the perceived interests of the list. The intention of such action is not to censor but to retain the professional and scholarly character of H-W-CIV.

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