H-Net creates and coordinates Internet networks with the common objective of advancing teaching and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

To enable scholars, teachers, advanced students, and related professionals to form digital communities within which they may easily communicate regarding their scholarly, pedagogical, and professional interests;

To facilitate the rapid diffusion of new technologies and new electronic sources of information to scholars, teachers, advanced students, and professionals in the humanities and social sciences;

To enhance the ability of scholars, teachers, advanced students, and professionals to test new ideas and share comments on new developments within their own fields and across disciplinary boundaries;

And to introduce scholars, teachers, advanced students, and professionals to the vast range of resources that advances in computing and electronic communication have made available and will make available for research, teaching, learning, public outreach, and service.


The H-Net Humanities Facebook page is connected to the organizations Twitter account and is intended to: promote the activities of our networks; introduce people to the newly released H-Net Commons; and to share relevant information posted by friends and associates of the H-Net organization.

Each H-Net network (https://networks.h-net.org/networks) has its own "personality," is edited by a team of scholars, and has a board of editors; most are cosponsored by a professional society. The editors control the flow of messages, commission reviews, and reject flames and items unsuitable for a scholarly discussion group.

The goals of H-Net networks are to enable scholars to easily communicate current research and teaching interests; to discuss new approaches, methods and tools of analysis; to share information on electronic databases; and to test new ideas and share comments on the literature in their fields.