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Welcome to H-Maryland, a member of H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine. H-Maryland provides a netowrk for those persons who research, write, read, teach, and preserve Maryland history and culture.
The Ghost of H-Net Past
When H-Net began in 1994, email was a rarity, the internet was a collection of text-based gopher files that you could access if you knew the right commands, and scholars in small departments or isolated areas never had the chance to talk with someone else in their field. Into these dark times, H-Net editors took on the challenge to teach their colleagues how to use email. Editors promoted discussions of which archives were the most useful for which subjects. H-Announce soon started to replace physical paper flyers to announce conferences. Isolated scholars learned about
I am consistently amazed that this place exists and that more people have not heard about it. To that end, http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/north-baltimore/ph-ms-the-book-thing-1119-20151120-story.html
Dear H-Net Readers and Subscribers:
I am Robert Cassanello, Vice President of Research and Publications at H-Net, and I wanted to ask you if you have not already done so to consider donating to H-Net during this campaign drive. I first heard about H-Net back in 1994 during a graduate seminar and immediately joined a couple of burgeoning networks. Throughout this 20+ year relationship with H-Net, I have been fortunate enough to have gained a tremendous amount of professional contacts, development, as well as academic dialog that was unimaginable while I was an undergraduate student in history.
As
If you have any good ideas for the Maryland Humanities Council they're asking for ideas for the 2016 book.
http://mdhc.org/programs/one-maryland-one-book/
Dear H-Net subscribers and readers,
H-Net is uniquely poised in the online academic world in a way that other sites and outlets simply can't match. It isn't just H-Net's new publishing platform that makes that the case. In the past two years 280 new editors have joined H-Net. That's 280 scholars, researchers,
and teachers who have seen the potential of the H-Net Commons, gotten involved to help develop it, and are providing service to their fields by building resources and developing meaningful content with and for their peers.
Among H-Net's 549 editors, these 280 represent an infusion of new
Maryland History Day is Saturday, May 7 and the MHC is looking for volunteer judges.
http://mdhc.org/programs/maryland-history-day/judges/call-for-judges/
The link to the newsletter has more details but some things of note this week are:
The Mourning After: Grieving in Style in the Victorian Era
Thursday, November 5, 2015 | 6 PM
Presented by Karin Bohleke, Ph.D., Director of the Fashion Archives and Museum of Shippensburg University
Slavery and Emancipation in Maryland
Walking Tour with Baltimore Heritage
Saturday, November 7 | 10 AM
Baltimore's Next "Poe Toaster" Auditions
Saturday, November 7 | 8:30 PM - 11:30 PM
Hosted by the Maryland Historical Society,
in partnership with Poe Baltimore
and Westminster Hall & Burying Ground
Here's a link to a Baltimore Sun photo slide-show juxaposing classic and recent images.
Dear H-Net Readers and Subscribers:
Over ten years ago, the H-Net Council passed a Strategic Plan for H-Net that envisioned what became the Commons. H-Net would “implement an enterprise-wide content management system that encourages information sharing in a protected networked environment monitored by field experts” and “Plan for migration of content delivery technologies to web-based formats for editing, publication, and service.”
Since then we have rebuilt our Job Guide service, created a Reviews Management System for inventory, copyediting, and publishing of book reviews, and migrated our