======================= HES POSTING ================== 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]> ------------------cut here and mail to <[log in to unmask]> -------------- 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? 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