The History under Debate Website came into being on April 29th
1999 in the course of the preparation of the Second International
Conference, which was greatly an Internet-based one.
A year from that day, the Digital History under Debate can be
said to have acquired an identity of its own right in accordance
with the relevance of this new system of communication, which is
enabling us to make a new kind of historiography due to its
horizontal, fast and interactive nature.
It is a great honour and privilege for History under Debate to be
at the forefront and contribute from Europe and the Latin world
to the making of a new community of historians - virtual and
global- which cuts across departments, specialities and
countries.
The site is updated almost on a daily basis . Thus, contributions
to the debates can be read here even before they are distributed
among list members. In the coming months, the number of sections
will be increased . Our medium-term objective is to became a
portal of history endowed with our distinctive characteristics (
which makes us different from other projects, inside and outside
the Net): our global and multilingual pledge, the theory and the
practice of the profession, the academe and society as regards
its committed relationship, the past/ present and the past/
future, the debate and the consensus as the means for advancement
towards a new paradigm .
One year ago at What is History under Debate ? we said that we
were, or intended to be, a network of historians, a forum of
debate, a research workshop and a project of historiographic
change . Taking as our foundations the Proceedings of the Second
Conference History under Debate, the results of the Enquiry and
the latest debates, we intend to further promote the latter,
putting special emphasis on historical alternatives and new lines
of historical research.
In order to accomplish all this , we count on you all, on your
proven fidelity, which has been constant throughout this first
year on the Net.
Let us rejoice at this first anniversary on the Net and may Clio
bestow many more!
Carlos Barros
Coordinador de Historia a Debate
http://www.h-debate.com