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Subject: INFO: ANNOUNCING H-DISABILITY: H-NET LIST ON THE HISTORY OF
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Thought some of you would be interested in this listserve
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Subject:  INFO: ANNOUNCING H-DISABILITY: H-NET LIST ON THE HISTORY OF
      DISABILITIES


From: H-NET Announcements Editor <[log in to unmask]>
Date: March 24, 2001

ANNOUNCING H-DISABILITY
H-NET LIST ON THE HISTORY OF DISABILITIES
Sponsored by
H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences On-line, Michigan State University

H-Disability is a scholarly discussion group that explores the multitude
of historical issues surrounding the experience and phenomenon of
'disability.' H-Disability was established in response to the growing
academic interest and expanding scholarly literature on issues of
disability throughout the world. This discussion group serves not only to
give historians an opportunity to exchange ideas,syllabi, scholarly work,
and archival sources but will attract other historians of all specialties
to the field. The H-Disability discussion group allows disability scholars
to compare and contrast the experience of disability across time and
space, including American, European and non-Western contexts. The
Editorial Board and Editors of H-Disability believe that situating
disability within historical context facilitates a more sophisticated
understanding of the various experiences of people with disabilities.

Plans for this discussion group on disability history include listing
archival locations that contain materials relevant to issues of disability
and planning conference panels on disability history, as well as sharing
materials for teaching and research. Such collaboration will help create a
community of dedicated disability historians as the field grows. Discussion
is limited to scholarly endeavors only; no postings of a personal nature
are allowed. The list serves the already established academic community of
disability historians in the US as well as the growing number of interested
scholars around the world.

H-Disability is free and open to anyone with a serious and abiding
interest in the history of disabilities.  Like all H-Net lists,
H-Disability is moderated to edit out material that, the editors' opinion,
is not germane to the list, involves technical matters (such as
subscription management requests), is inflammatory, or violates evolving,
yet common, standards of Internet etiquette.

H-Disability is edited by Penny L. Richards, UCLA Center for
the Study of Women <[log in to unmask]> and Sandy Sufian
<[log in to unmask]>  It is advised by a board of field experts.

Logs and more information can also be found at the H-Net Web Site,
located at http://h-net.msu.edu/.

To join H-Disability, please send a message from the account where you wish
to
receive mail, to:

[log in to unmask]

(with no signatures or styled text, word wrap off for long lines) and
only this text:

sub h-disability firstname lastname, institution
Example: sub h-disability Leslie Jones, Pacific State U

Follow the instructions you receive by return mail.  If you have
questions or experience difficulties in attempting to subscribe, please
send a message to:

[log in to unmask]

H-Net is 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, and is hosted by Michigan
State University.  For more information about H-Net, write to
[log in to unmask], or point your web browser to http://www.h-net.msu.edu.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Penny Richards and Sandy Sufian
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