The History Cooperative is a pioneering nonprofit humanities resource offering top-level online history scholarship. Besides full text, the site also contains collateral content, including multimedia elements that could not be reproduced in the print versions of some articles. See for yourself why the Coop has become The Site for history scholars and researchers alike.

AHR "ELECTRONIC-ONLY" ARTICLE: THE DIFFERENCES SLAVERY MADE: A CLOSE ANALYSIS OF TWO AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
Over the last decade networked information resources have come to play a large role in the work of historians; most of us have become accustomed to augmenting our library research and professional discussion through digital means. Despite these changes, scholars have only begun to craft scholarship designed specifically for the electronic environment. In this article, we attempt to translate the fundamental components of professional scholarship-evidence, engagement with prior scholarship, and a scholarly argument-into forms that take advantage of the possibilities of electronic media.

This project was funded in part by the

National Endowment for the Humanities

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY EDITOR SEARCH
The American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society are seeking a new editor for the journal, Environmental History. Click here to view the full description.

TEACHING THE JAH
"Teaching the JAH" delivers teaching packages, each of which features an article from the print journal, along with supporting documents that demonstrate how it might be used in the U.S. history survey course.

The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian's Rural Enlightenment," by John Fea

John Fea's article explores the meaning of the Enlightenment for ordinary Americans in the eighteenth century. This installment of "Teaching the JAH" focuses on the life of Philip Vickers Fithian, one of the century's most prolific diarists, to help students locate the Enlightenment historically in a distinctively American place. This "Teaching" also features images and transcripts of over 300 pages from Fithian's papers, available online for the first time!

NEW AT THE HISTORY COOPERATIVE
The History Cooperative welcomes the arrival of 3 outstanding journals in 2003. View full-text recent issues of:

• Journal of World History
• History of Education Quarterly
• Environmental History