Common-Place

Abstract

The Journal of American History, in collaboration with the Web site History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Webhttp://historymatters.gmu.edu, publishes regular reviews of Web sites. The reviews will appear both in the printed journal (and its online companion at http://www.historycooperative.org) and at History Matters. The Web reviews are edited by Roy Rosenzweig; please contact him at roy@gmu.edu if you would like to suggest a site for review or write a review. We also welcome comments on our review guidelines, which are available at http://chnm.gmu.edu/jah. There is nothing commonplace about this venture. Back when Internet start-ups were booming the stock exchanges, it was not uncommon to hear almost apocalyptic prophecies about an electronic revolution in the way scholars would exchange ideas. It has not happened—yet. In its Project Muse, Johns Hopkins University Press publishes over one hundred humanities journals online, but only two of them are really “online journals”; the rest are simply post-produced electronic versions of traditionally published quarterlies and annuals. From its start in 2000, however, Common-Place was conceived as, to cite its subtitle, an Interactive Journal of Early American Life, available only on the Web.