====================== HES POSTING ================== [From: H-Net Announcements Editor <[log in to unmask]>] ANNOUNCING H-ORALHIST, H-Net Discussion List on Oral History Sponsored by H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online, Oral History Association, and Michigan State University H-ORALHIST is the successor to OHA-L, which began in 1993. H-ORALHIST is a network of people interested in oral history. Oral history is commonly defined as a method of collecting and preserving tape-recorded remembrances of past experiences. Although historians have been interviewing people since the ancient Chinese dynasties, the modern oral history movement is considered to have begun in 1948 when Allan Nevins established the Columbia University Oral History Research Office. The Oral History Association, with 1,200 members, promotes oral history internationally. H-ORALHIST invites subscriptions from people with a broad range of backgrounds, including public historians, students, local historians, and university faculty members. Active editing will stimulate discussions which reflect the theory as well as the practice of oral history interviewing. The list also seeks to provide an interactive forum for individuals interested in using oral history as defined above or for those who wish to contest the above definition. The H-ORALHIST list is co-edited by Jeff Charnley, Michigan State University <[log in to unmask]>; Gene Preuss, Texas Tech University, <[log in to unmask]>; Cheryl Oakes, Forest History Society, <[log in to unmask]>; and Michael Gordon, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, <[log in to unmask]>. The editors serve two-year renewable terms, with the approval of the H-Net Executive Committee and rotate their duties. The current editor will be identified in all messages coming from the list. The editors will solicit postings (by email, phone and even by regular mail), will assist people in managing subscriptions and setting up options, will handle routine inquiries, and will consolidate some postings. Anyone with suggestions about what H-ORALHIST can and might do is invited to send in ideas. The editors will solicit and post newsletter-type information (calls for conferences, for example, or listings of sessions at conventions.) They will also commission book and article reviews, and post book announcements from publishers. H-ORALHIST will be moderated to filter out extraneous messages (like requests for subscription) and items that do not belong on H-ORALHIST. They may belong somewhere else, or in the judgment of the editors they do not aid the scholarly dialogue. The editors will not alter the meaning of messages without the author's permission. It is advised by a board of scholars and is sponsored by the Oral History Association. More information about the Oral History Association may be found at the Association's web site: http://www.baylor.edu/~OHA Logs and more information about H-ORALHIST can also be found at the H-Net Web Site, located at http://www.h-net.msu.edu/ ************************************************************************ ABOUT H-NET H-ORALHIST is affiliated with H-Net, an international network of scholars in the humanities and social sciences that creates and coordinates electronic networks, using a variety of media, and with a common objective of advancing humanities and social science teaching and research. H-Net was created to provide a positive, supportive, equalitarian environment for the friendly exchange of ideas and scholarly resources. H-NET sponsors dozens of e-mail lists and Web sites for them in a variety of disciplines and fields, publishes reviews of scholary books and articles on the internet, and provides a weekly Job Guide. Our host is Michigan State University. More information can be obtained by sending an e-mail message to [log in to unmask] or by browsing our Web site at http://www.h-net.msu.edu. *********************************************************************** SUBSCRIBING TO H-ORALHIST To subscribe, send an e-mail message (no signatures or styled text), from the account where you wish to receive mail to [log in to unmask], with the following command as its only text: SUBSCRIBE H-ORALHIST firstname lastname, institution Example: SUBSCRIBE H-ORALHIST Jane Smith, Pioneer State U Please follow the instructions you receive by return mail. For additional information please write: Jeff Charnley, <[log in to unmask]> For technical assistance please contact the H-NET help staff at: [log in to unmask] Thank you for your interest in H-ORALHIST! The H-Oralhist Editors ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]