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Announcing NEWDEAL, a New Deal List for 1929-1952
NEWDEAL is a daily email newsletter for scholars, teachers
and researchers involved in New Deal studies to communicate with
each other more easily. We hope to sponsor reviews of new books
dealing with the New Deal Era (1929-1952), develop an exchange of
course syllabi, announce conferences and new publications, assist
in developing the ongoing New Deal website, and mobilize
volunteers into a "Civilian Computer Corps."
Subscriptions are free, and open to all who are interested in
New Deal Studies. Applicants fill out a short description of
their research and teaching interests. [see end of this message]
Undergraduates are welcome if they have a letter of endorsement
from their professor. There are two ways to subscribe: 1) either
send the form at the bottom of this message to [log in to unmask]
2) or else you send this one-line message to
[log in to unmask]
SUB NEWDEAL Firstname Lastname, Affiliation
for example, SUB NEWDEAL Harry Hopkins, WPA
[note that NEWDEAL is one word]
You will receive a short form to fill out and then you will be
added to the list.
NEWDEAL intends to foster productive exchange of ideas and
materials among historically-oriented scholars of a social
scientific or humanistic perspective -- the list is not limited to
professional, academic historians. Archivists, librarians, public
historians, and researchers at any level with a mature interest in
the craft of history during this period are also welcome. We are
interested in materials about politics, diplomacy, economics,
society, culture, the arts, government, states, cities and
regions, personalities, popular culture, archives, museums, films,
and exhibits. Most of the attention will be to the USA, but we
welcome comparative perspectives. We especially welcome thoughts
on how to teach the New Deal period in schools and universities,
and how to organize and utilize museum exhibits. Through this
list, subscribers and editors will communicate current research
and research interests; discuss new articles, books, papers,
approaches, methods and tools of analysis; test new ideas and
share comments and tips on teaching.
NEWDEAL invites subscribers to submit syllabi, outlines,
handouts, bibliographies, guides to term papers, listings of new
sources and archives, and reports on new software, datasets and
cd-roms. NEWDEAL will post announcements about conferences,
fellowships and grants, research and publication opportunities,
and jobs. We are especially interested in reaching college faculty
who already have, or plan to teach courses on this period.
NEWDEAL will therefore actively solicit syllabi, reading lists,
term paper guides, ideas on films and slides, and tips and
comments that will be of use to the teacher who wants to add a
single lecture, or an entire course.
NEWDEAL will commission full length reviews of new
monographs and old classics. It will promote the development of
on-line primary documents, interpretive essays and other scholarly
resources concerning the New Deal era.
The NEWDEAL list is a project of the New Deal Network, based
at the Institute for Learning technologies, Columbia University,
New York City. See our website at
<http://newdeal.feri.org>
The list is edited by a team of scholars, who read every
submission, silently correct problems of grammar, spelling and
formatting, and suggest stylistic improvements or bibliographic
citations. (If you mention a book or article, please try to
include full name, title and date.) The editors will not alter
the meaning of messages without the author's permission. The
editors will not post flames, personal attacks, irrelevant items,
or items that should go directly to someone else rather than the
whole list. The current editor will be identified in all messages
coming from the list. The editors will solicit postings and will
assist people in subscribing and setting up options, will handle
routine inquiries, and will consolidate some postings. The
editors are responsible to the subscribers and the larger
"republic of letters," and also to an editorial advisory board
that will be selected (volunteers welcome.)
COPYRIGHT: All messages are automatically copyright by the
authors, with the understanding that "Fair Use" provision of the
law and the customs of the Internet allow for crossposting and
copying for educational purposes, without the need to ask the
author's permission. NEWDEAL is a publication, and all messages
are permanently archived. A suggested citation to a message is:
Jean Brown, "On the WPA," [log in to unmask],
10-25-1997.
Editors:
Tom Thurston, Roosevelt Institute <[log in to unmask]> Jim
Mott, SPSS <[log in to unmask]> Richard Jensen, U of Illinois
<[log in to unmask]>
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NEWDEAL APPLICATION FORM:
a) Firstname Lastname
b) Postal/mailing address
c) Best email address
d) School or academic affiliation and status [professor/grad
student/ librarian/ independent scholar/ etc]
e) Teaching and research interests in New Deal Era
f) Comments on what you would like to see on NEWDEAL
g) Can you volunteer to review books or help with the web site?
which book would you like to review?
h) Do you want your above answers confidential? (otherwise we
will
post them to our web sites along with information on other
subscribers)
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send to <[log in to unmask]> and our editors will sign you up
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