Electronic Dialogues: The ABC’s of E-Mail for Historians

Abstract

For most historians, the computer is a closed System, an introspective writing tool. Increasingly, however historians are using their computers to provide very fast, low cost communication with scholars in Canada, the United States, Latin America, Asia, and throughout Europe. Articles, conference announcements, job postings, and bibliographies are regularly sent, not only to individuals, but also distributed by electronic mailing lists to the subscribers of special interest forums, including those for historians.