H-Net
Sign in to saveAlso known as H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online, H-Net 2.0, H-Net Commons
H-Net ("Humanities & Social Sciences Online") is an interdisciplinary forum for scholars in the humanities and social sciences. One of its functions is to host electronic mailing lists organized by academic disciplines. In 2007, H-Net lists reached 180,000 subscribers from over 160 countries, and in 2025 its website stated there were 230,000 subscribers from over 200 countries.
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Vinony's link graph records 227 inbound references to H-Net, and connects out to American Historical Association, International Standard Book Number and social science.
It is catalogued under topics including Digital humanities, Electronic mailing lists and Internet properties established in 1992.
Vinony links it to 4 Wikipedia language editions.
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Other
- Founded
- 1993
- Location
- East Lansing, United States
- Also known as
- H-Net 2.0, H-Net Commons
- Status
- Active
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- organization
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Country
- United States
- Headquarters
- East Lansing
- Owned by
- Michigan State University
- Operator
- Michigan State University
- Official website
- networks.h-net.org/h-net
- Has use
- communication
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- Alexa rank
- 54410
- inception
- 1993-01-01
- P8168
- Vallendar
- social media followers
- 9829
- Commons category
- H-Net
- described at URL
- marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/tool-or-service/ESs5u6
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Online services
- Discussion networks
- History
- See also
- References
- Further reading
H-Net ("Humanities & Social Sciences Online") is an interdisciplinary forum for scholars in the humanities and social sciences. One of its functions is to host electronic mailing lists organized by academic disciplines. In 2007, H-Net lists reached 180,000 subscribers from over 160 countries, and in 2025 its website stated there were 230,000 subscribers from over 200 countries.
The H-Net Network has grown until it is now endorsed by many academic professional organizations. Its over 180 topic- or discipline-specific lists are often the primary internet forum for scholars. Individual lists are edited by a team of scholars and each has a board of editors. The Department of History at Michigan State University hosts H-Net.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “H-Net” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.