projects/writinghistory

Welcome

This wiki is the first project of the Writing History website. Our site promotes the writing of creative, engaging, and exceptional history. We will develop resources for a national network of engaged scholars and enthusiasts and will connect like-minded individuals.

If you would like to get involved in the larger project, please contact the organizers' yahoogroup: [WWW] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/writinghistory/

I. Our Guide

This guide aims to inspire and facilitate the thoughtful writing of history.

Your additions welcomed:

II. What Writing History Can Be

1. Narrative and experimental forms of history

2. Sources of Inspiration

3. History facing out from the profession

4. The nuts and bolts of doing, publishing, and teaching writing

5. Writing Groups

III. The Writing History Network

  1. Existing Interest on Campuses

  2. Infrastructure

    • Yahoogroups for organizers

      Web portal: links to already-existing content: calendar, resources, journals
      H-Writing?
      Institutional partners, funding?
      Sponsor conference sessions? Symposium?
      Informal meeting at a conference?

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