FW: Migration in World History-Oct. World History Connected
John Maunu
World History Connected [free on-line journal] now has 450,000 readers of its articles (3 million visits) annually, so we have no want of readers, but as technology overwhelms us, we have little time to keep up with the field: many of us have too little time even to check H-World with any regularity. As many in at WHA/Costa Rica already know, WHC hopes to cut through the noise. For example, all of us know that migration is important in both research and teaching world history, so the October issue of WHC contains a Forum guest edited by a leading migration scholar, Patrick Manning, who is not only a stalwart WHA member, but Vice-President and President Elect of the American Historical Association. Manning’s introduction to the Forum offers a chance to quickly grasp essential aspects of the field today. An article on Digital Resources for Migration in World History is included in this Forum which will be of great value for researchers, teachers and students.
We also wish to remind you that WHC is eager to hear from you on world history matters, from innovative scholarship and teaching to book reviews to your own digital photographs and video clips we can use to illustrate future articles. The latter is especially welcome should their subject address First and Second World War battlefields and memorials, food in world history, examples of religious conversion/syncretism, and America in world history, subjects of near concern to WHC.
Marc Jason Gilbert
NEH Endowed Chair in World History
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Hawaii Pacific University
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Honolulu, Hawaii, 96813