H-Net Announces 21 Scholarly Lists for Historians September 19, 1993 please circulate A. Dramatic changes are underway in the electronic communications infrastructure worldwide, especially the Internet and Bitnet systems that link academic computers together. H-Net is an initiative of the History department at the University of Illinois, Chicago, to assist historians to go on-line, using their personal computers. . B. H-Net sponsors 21 electronic discussion groups or "lists." Subscribers automatically receive messages in their computer mailboxes. These messages can be replied to, saved, discarded, downloaded to a PC, copied, printed out, or relayed to someone else. The lists are free newsletters that are published daily. Currently our lists have 4,300+ subscribers (2,800+ separate people) in 40 countries. They receive an average of 15-50 messages a week. Membership is open to any scholar or graduate student, and is free. (We especially welcome librarians and archivists.) Each list is moderated by a historian and has a board of editors. The moderators control the flow of messages and reject those unsuitable for a scholarly discussion group. The primary purpose of each list is 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 current historiography. Each list is especially interested in methods of teaching history in diverse settings. The lists feature dialogues in the discipline. They publish book reviews, job announcements, syllabi, course outlines, class handouts, bibliographies, listings of new sources, guides to online library catalogs and archives, and reports on new software, datasets and cd-roms. Subscribers write in with questions, comments, and reports, and sometimes with mini-essays of a page or two. Most of the lists have no chronological or geographical limits. We need editors for new lists; if you are interested, send a vita to Richard Jensen at H-NET@uicvm.uic.edu (Internet) or H-NET@UICVM (Bitnet). C. The H-Net lists in operation are: 1) H-Albion British and Irish history 2) H-AmStdy American Studies 3) H-CivWar US Civil War 4) H-Diplo diplomatic history, foreign affairs 5) H-Durkhm Durkheim Society Newsletter; social thought 6) H-Ethnic ethnic & immigration history 7) H-Film scholarly studies & uses of media 8) H-Grad for graduate students only 9) H-Judaic Judaica and Jewish Studies 10) H-Labor labor history 11) H-LatAm Latin American History 12) H-Law legal and constitutional history 13) H-Pol US political history 14) H-Rhetor history of rhetoric & communications 15) H-Rural rural and agricultural history 16) H-South US South 17) H-Teach teaching college history 18) H-Urban urban history 19) H-Women women's history 20) HOLOCAUS Holocaust studies; anti-semitism 21) IEAHCnet Colonial America (Institute for Early American History and Culture) ------------------------------------------------------ To subscribe: send this 2-line message to LISTSERV@UICVM.UIC.EDU SUB xxxxxx Firstname Surname, Yourschool SET xxxxxx Digest where xxxxxx = list name; for example, sub H-Rural Leslie Smith, Southern Kansas U set H-Rural Digest [do not use quotes around "name"; abbreviate University to U; you have only 45 spaces for Firstname-Lastname-School] The "Set xxxxxxx Digest" line is optional; it means that the messages that are posted on the list during the day will be cumulated and you will only receive one long compund message every night. DIGEST reduces mailbox clutter. The uicvm.uic.edu is an "Internet" address. If your computer center only has "Bitnet" service, send the message to LISTSERV@uicvm from Compuserv: >INTERNET:Listserv@uicvm.uic.edu from Genie: LISTSERV@UICVM.UIC@INTERNET# if you cannot get a college account, we recommend DELPHI commercial service; 1-800-695-4005 ====================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1993 09:36:47 -0500 From: h-teach listserv mail account Subject: Re: History E-Lists "H-Net Guide to History Lists on Bitnet/Internet" from H-Net@uicvm.bitnet August 11, 1993 -- list address theme of list [ listname@node (where node = name of computer host) ] ** = H-Net sponsored list 1. AfAm-L@UMCVMB African-American Research 2. AfAS-L@KENTVM African American Studies and Librarianship 3. AfroAm-L@harvarda African-American Studies 4. Ancient and Medieval History a) Agor@une.edu.au AGORA = e-journal in classics b) Ancien-L@ULKYVM History of the Ancient Mediterranean c) AnSax-L@WVNVM Anglo Saxon [very active, technical] d) BMCR-L@cc.brynmawr.edu Bryn Mawr Classics Review (ejournal) e) BMMR-L@cc.brynmawr.edu Bryn Mawr Medieval Review (ejournal) f) Classics@UWAVM Classical Greek and Latin [very active] g) IBYCUS-L@uscvm Ibycus (Ancient Greek) h) Interscripta@morgan.ucs.mun.ca Medieval seminar topics i) IOUDAIOS@yorkvm1 First Century Judaism j) MedFem-L@UWAVM Medievalist feminists k) MEDIEV-L@ukanvm Medieval l) MedSci-L@brownvm Medieval and Renaissance science m) MEDTEXTL@uiucvmd Medieval Texts, Philology, Codicology 5. AHC-L@DGOGWDG1 (European) Association for History & Computing 6. AmerCath@UKCC History of American Catholicism 7. Amerstdy@miamiu American Studies 8. AmWest-H@uscvm American West 9. Archives@arizvm1.ccit.arizona.edu Archives [very active] 10. ASEH-L@TTUVM1 Am. Soc. of Environmental Historians 11. Balzac-L@cc.umontreal.ca French culture [send e-note to Balzac-l-request@cc.umontreal.ca ] 12. British lists at mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk American-studies Essex-history Historical data archives at ESRC history-methods history-vasco 15-16c Portugal history-teaching history-econ Economic history; excellent newsletter history-ihr Intitute of Historical Reseach humgrad Graduate students in Humanities a) for all British lists, send e-note (no subject) to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk containing the single line: JOIN list Firstname Surname (i.e. JOIN History-econ Richard Jensen to exit: LEAVE History-methods b) if you are in Britain, mail to JANET%"MAILBASE@UK.AC.MAILBASE" 13. C18-L@psuvm 18th century history & culture [active] 14. Caduceus medical history; email to ibowman@utmbeach 15. CANALC@YORKVM1 Latin America and the Caribbean 16. China@PUCC Chinese Studies 17. CLIONET Australian monthly e-newsletter reach it through HNSOURCE (see #59 below) under RESOURCES/ Europe and Asia 18. CTICH Computers in teaching history ewrite: CTICH@glasgow.ac.uk 19. deutsche-liste@ccu.umanitoba.ca German lit & culture [send e-note to owner at: colappe@ccu.umanitoba.ca ] 20. EarAm-L@KENTVM Society of Early Americanists [low activity] 21. EMedCh-L@uscvm early medieval China 22. EMHist-L@uscvm early modern Europe 23. EPP-L@BUACCA Albert Einstein Papers and Discussion 24. Erasmus Renaissance & Reformation Studies send enote to bowen@vm.epas.utoronto.ca [internet address] 25. ESPORA-L@ukanvm Spain/Portugal 26. EthnoHis@HEARN Ethnohistory 27. Ficino@UTORONTO FICINO Renaissance/Reformation 28. FranceHs@UWAVM French history [low activity] 29. GrmnHist@uscvm German history 30. H-Albion@uicvm ** British History 31. H-AmStdy@uicvm ** American Studies 32. H-CivWar@uicvm ** US Civil War 33. H-Diplo@uicvm ** US diplomatic; foreign affairs 34. H-Durkhm@uicvm ** European social thought 35. H-Ethnic@uicvm ** Ethnicity, immigration 36. H-Film@uicvm ** scholarly studies & uses of media [Sept 1] 37. H-Judaic@uicvm ** Judaica and Jewish Studies [Aug 15] 38. H-Labor@uicvm ** Labor History 39. H-Law@uicvm ** US legal & constitutional 40. H-LatAm@uicvm ** Latin American 41. H-News@uicvm ** general history news & announcements [Sept 1] 42. H-Pol@uicvm ** US Political History [Sept 1993] 43. H-Rhetor@uicvm ** History of Rhetoric 44. H-Rural@uicvm ** Rural, agricultural history 45. H-South@uicvm ** US South 46. H-Teach@uicvm ** Teaching History 47. H-Urban@uicvm ** Urban History 48. H-Women@uicvm ** Women's History 49. HOLOCAUS@uicvm ** Holocaust studies, anti-Semitism 50. HABSBURG@purccvm Austrian History since 1500 51. HISLAW-L@ulkyvm History of Law (Feudal, Common, Canon) 52. HISTEC-L@ukanvm History of Evangelical Christianity 53. history@psuvm Generic history [active; semi-pop] 54. HNSOURCE history gopher service at U Kansas (="MALIN") telnet hnsource.cc.ukans.edu a) the menu option RESOURCES: DATA BASES includes direct access to databases, including CARL (periodical literature) and LOCIS (Library of Congress catalog) b) Byrd Historical Data Archives (e-texts) use gopher through HNSOURCE under RESOURCES/America c) GHETA History ftp service at U of Groningen reach it from HNSOURCE under RESOURCES/ Europe and Asia d) Mississippi State History Data Archive via HNSOURCE under RESOURCES/America 55. HOPOS-L@UKCC History of Philosophy of Science [active] 56. HOST History of Science & Tech (ejournal) contact editor at jsmith@epas.utoronto.ca 57. HTech-L@SIVM History of Technology [active] 58. HUMANIST@brownvm Humanists [active, famous] 59. IEAHCnet@uicvm ** Early American History & Culture (fall 93) 60. Islam-L@ulkyvm History of Islam 61. L-CHA@uqam Canadian Historical Association 62. LASNET@EMX.UTEXAS.EDU Latin American Studies Network 63. MCLR-L@MSU Latino Research 64. MilHst-L@ukanvm Military History [active; semi-popular] 65. MUSEUM-L@UNMVMA Museums 66. OMHR Online Modern History Review send e-note to editor at ua832@freenet.victoria.bc.ca 67. ORTRAD-L@MIZZOU1 Oral traditons 68. Poli-Sci@RUTVM1 Political Science Digest 69. PrezHist@kasey.umkc.edu [Internet] US Presidential History, PrezHist%kasey.umkc.edu@umkcvax1 [Bitnet] 1789-1992 70. PSRT-L@MIZZOU1 Pol Science/ constl law book reviews [good] 71. PUBLHIST Public history list To subscribe, send to MAILSERV@HUSC3.HARVARD.EDU SUBSCRIBE PUBLHIST Firstname Surname 72. RENAIS-L@ULKYVM Renaissance 73. Roots-L@NDSUVM1 Genealogy [very active] 74. SEAsia-L@MSU Southeast Asian Studies 75. SEdit-L@UMDD Editors of scholarly editions 76. Shaker@ukcc Shakers 77. SHARP-L@IUBVM History of Authorship, Reading 78. SHOTHC-L@SIVM History of Computing 79. T-Assist@UNMVMA Teaching assistants (all departments) 80. Victoria@IUBVM Victorian studies 81. VWar-L@UBVM Vietnam War [history, pop culture very active] 82. WHIRL@PSUVM Women's History in Rhetoric & Language 83. World-L@UBVM World History [active, non-eurocentric] 84. WWII-L@UBVM World War II [active] A. How to subscribe to a LIST via Bitnet (use H-TEACH as example). Do NOT send a message directly to the list. Instead send it to the "listserv" that handles the list. (LISTSERV with one "E"). The Listserv program on the mainframe computer at the other end will figure out your e-address from the message header it gets from your computer. The Internet addresses above are the longer more complicated ones; most computer centers treat them the same as Bitnet addresses; if you get an error message check with your local guru. 1. Thus to subscribe to H-TEACH (that is, H-TEACH@uicvm) send a message to its listserv, which will be LISTSERV@uicvm for H-TEACH@uicvm. 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