The JAHC is the electronic journal of the American Association for History and Computing (AAHC) and is supported by the Matsushita Center for Electronic Learning and the Berglund Center for Internet Studies, both of Pacific University. The JAHC is a peer-reviewed and international e-journal edited by scholars from a wide variety of institutions and countries.

This issue is not untouched by the events of 9-11. One of our editors, Deborah Lines Andersen, in her "Benchmarks" feature "September 11, Loss and Creation," writes of them both as an occasion for grieving, and as a challenge to record keepers and historians. In his editorial essay, "Netwar," our editor, Jeffrey Barlow, presents his understanding of the context of the attacks from the viewpoint of a historian who has frequently worked with wars and violence and who is interested in the impact of the Internet.

But life goes on, for scholars as well as for the country and the world. Birten Celik, a scholar now working in the United States, gives us great insight into the academic study of history via electronic means in her homeland, Turkey. Birten's article, "Web-based History Education in Turkey," shows us that many of the same problems we face in dealing with the rapid spread of electronic materials and teaching methods are also encountered in Turkish schools.

Douglas Harms and Dave Berque of the Computer Science Department at DePauw University in Indiana discuss the teaching of both history and computer science by the use of historical artifacts, in this case, old hardware. Their article, "Smaller and Faster is not Always Better" makes an excellent use of graphics and conveys some of the excitement that their students must feel in their truly innovative classroom.

Another of our editors, G.K. Peatling, teams with C. M. Baggs, a colleague from the Department of Information and Library Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, to discuss an innovative environment, the use of Active Server pages to create a web-based interface to a complex historical relational database.

And in a season when we are hearing so many historical analogies used to illuminate current events our Book Editor David Staley reviews three works in his essay "Digital Historiography: Analogies."

In this issue we also offer an unusually full slate of articles of use to educators at all levels. Our K-12 editor, D. Antonio Cantu, writes on "Teaching the American Revolution and Founding of the American Republic on the Web." John I. Brooks discusses " Implementing an Internet-Enhanced History Teaching Environment", and Steven Burt "Manufacturing Understanding: Brain-based Learning and the Internet in the High School Classroom." And we present Gloria Petrie's " Plans, Procedures and PC's: Using PC's to Facilitate Learning in the K-12 Classroom" in its graphically-intensive glory.

Our regular feature editors also provide us with a rich variety of reviews and notices. J. Kelly Robison and Daniel Pfeifer present a review by Erik Hofstee of Michigan State University of "SuperQuery" a very robust data-mining program. Ryan Johnson and Lynn Hattendorf Westney, Coeditors of "E-Journals--Inside and Out" review a number of useful journals and articles. David Staley and Julie Holcomb, Book Review Editors, assisted by David Price, review several useful and influential books. And Scott Merriman, our Electronic Site Reviews editor brings us back where we began, with reviews of sites relevant to September 11, 2001.

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