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To: All SHGAPE members and H-SHGAPE readers: From: Alan Lessoff, <ahlesso@ilstu.edu>, John McClymer <jmcclyme@assumption.edu> and Wendy Gamber, executive secretary, <wgamber@indiana.edu> The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era is pleased to introduce its new website at <www.jgape.org>. This site, devised by John McClymer, the journal's new online editor, is meant as a home and launching pad for our efforts over the next years to develop special features that will build upon the conventional print journal while taking special advantage of digital media and online publication. This particular version of the website is interim. We will be adding upgrades and enhancements over the next months that should make the site even more flexible, engaging, and attractive. As a starting point, we have provided a few examples of the sorts of projects we have in mind. Scroll down to the features on the music critic Henry Krehbiel and Richard's Strauss's Salome, on imagery from the Philippine War, and on the Americanization of Struwwelpeter. While all three features should be useful on their own, the first two especially are meant to interact with journal articles in ways that enhance the intellectual and teaching possibilities of research published in the journal originally. Along these lines, we invite ideas for projects devised with this website in mind. We especially invite primary research projects envisioned distinctly for digital media. Please consult the online submission guidelines on the left of the webpage. Such projects will go through a peer-review procedure appropriate to digital media, and an essay based upon them will appear in the journal, so that researchers can classify such projects as publications equivalent to traditional journal articles. We hope that this approach will help to remove some of the professional obstacles to the regular creation of research projects designed distinctly for digital media. The idea is to further the goal of the internet becoming not simply another vehicle for disseminating the journal (though that is a valuable function for sure), but a place that encourages new genres of history appropriate to it. We had a number of difficulties making this site accessible, which is why the journal was offline much of the time over the past month. We should be available reliably from now on. But if anyone has a problem with this website or any of its features, please contact us right away. JGAPE subscribers should immediately contact us if they have problems accessing the online subscription system that is linked to this website via the menu on the lefthand side. For JGAPE subscribers, the mailing of renewal notices for 2010 was delayed until this site was functioning. Everyone should receive a notice very soon by mail, and everyone whose email address we could find will receive one via email. Again, anyone who has problems with the system should contact us. We would appreciate hearing from people with comments and suggestions for revising or enhancing the site. Yours truly, Alan Lessoff, editor, <ahlesso@ilstu.edu>, and John McClymer, online editor, <jmcclyme@assumption.edu> Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Wendy Gamber, executive secretary, <wgamber@indiana.edu> Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott E. Randolph, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of History Armstrong Atlantic State University Curator, Erie Lackawanna Historical Society -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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