Welcome to H-USA Discussion List
Welcome to the electronic network H-USA, an Internet forum for the international study of the United States. H-USA is designed to serve teachers, scholars, journalists and advanced students worldwide--and especially in Japan. H-USA is cosponsored by the Kansai Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at Osaka University of Foreign Studies and H-Net, Humanities Online. Subscribers will automatically receive messages in their computer mailboxes. Messages can be saved, discarded, copied, printed out, or relayed to someone else. The postings can be quoted and cited--they are an electronic publication, and their archives will be permanently available. H-USA is like a newsletter that is published several times a week. The primary purpose for H-USA is to enable teachers interested in American Studies and American history to obtain accurate information from scholars, and to discuss the meaning of current and historical events. We will facilitate "pen pal" arrangements between classes in the USA and other countries. H-USA is entirely non-partisan and non-polemical. It will be friendly and informal--the editors will help subscribers for whom English is not their first language. No personal attacks or "flames" will be published. Items that in the judgment of the editors do not further the educational dialogue will not be published. The editors will translate and summarize postings not sent in English, and will correct spelling or grammar errors, but they will not alter the meaning of the message. All messages must be signed with full name and email address. H-USA is edited by independent scholars and it will be open to all viewpoints. Subscriptions will be free, with no dues or subscription charges. H-USA is made possible by the unpaid work of volunteer editors, and the paid work of technical staff at Michigan State University. Its costs are covered by a grant from the Japan Foundation of Tokyo, through its Center for Global Partnership. H-USA will feature questions and answers about the United States. In 1996 it will feature discussions on the Presidential election. H-USA will discuss new articles, books, papers, approaches, methods and tools of analysis; it will disseminate bibliographies, discuss new ideas and share syllabi and tips on teaching. It will commission original reviews of new books, movies, television programs, videos, museum exhibits, textbooks, CD-ROMS, computer software, and other teaching materials. H-USA is edited by a team of eight scholars in Japan, the USA and Europe, and has an international editorial board. Many items will be crossposted from other H-NET lists which deal with advanced topics in American Culture. H-USA will try to stimulate high level academic dialogues. Subscribers will write in with questions, comments, and reports. We are especially interested in reaching college and high school faculty who teach courses on American history, American Studies, American literature or the English language. H-USA will therefore actively solicit syllabi, reading lists, termpaper guides, ideas on videos, slides and software, and tips and comments that will be of use to the teacher who wants to add a single lecture, or an entire course. English is the language of H-USA. Contributions to H-USA can be short questions or as long as 1000 words. The editors will translate and rephrase questions sent in Japanese, Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Russian or Polish. For information in Japanese, please email or write or phone:
Yoneyuki SUGITA For other questions, please email:
Brad Burke
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