Subject: History Guide

From: [email-masked]
Date: 11 May 1993 13:16:40 -0700 (MST)

ELECTRONIC SOURCES FOR HISTORY

Compiled by Elliot Palais, University Libraries

     The following draft identifies electronic information sources
related to history, including listservers and historical text
archives. It also describes access to the online catalogs of
libraries, no matter where they are located. It is modelled in part
on a document compiled by Erwin Welsch, University of Wisconsin-
Madison Library entitled: "Electronic Sources for West European
History and Culture," which is available at the Mississippi State
University History FTP Site (see below, page 12).

I.   LIBRARY CATALOGS ONLINE

     Most research libraries now have online catalogs that are
available to outside users, who may wish to verify a
bibliographical reference, find a list of titles by a certain
author, or compile a bibliography on a subject. There are three
methods of accessing these catalogs.

     Every terminal in the library, and all computers equipped with
a modem and communication software (like Kermit) may access the ASU
Libraries' online catalog. This catalog provides a gateway to other
libraries on its menu system (choose "Other Libraries"). These
include the libraries on the CARL system, such as the University of
Hawaii and the University of Maryland. Also on the menu (although
not a CARL library) is Melvyl, the catalog of the University of
California system, which allows one to access individual libraries
within the system or all of them at once. Moreover, by pressing the
"return" key, the user gains access to libraries outside the
California system. Some of the larger collections available in this
way are: Harvard, Princeton, Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

     Another method of accessing library catalogs, LIBTEL, requires
a computer capable of using TELNET, a communications protocol that
allows a connection with a remote computer. The command is:

     telnet BBS.OIT.UNC.EDU

     Once connected to LIBTEL, follow on screen instructions. You
will be asked to supply a password (anything you like) that you
will always use in the future when connecting to this source. A
menu will allow the user to choose libraries in the United States
or in other countries. This service will make a direct connection
to the remote library catalog.

     Arizona State University has loaded LIBS software on the VAX,
where it is available to anyone with a VAX account. Choose ASU VAX
from the main menu, enter the account number and use LIBS LIBS as
the password. This program is similar to LIBTEL and provides easy
access to library catalogs throughout the world.

     As of May 1993, LIBS did not yet serve as a gateway to the
Library of Congress Catalog, which is accessible in at least two
ways:

          1. TELNET to LOCIS.LOC.GOV. No login or password needed.
          2. Through GOPHER (see below).

     The main menu of this catalog lists all of the contents of
this important service, which includes both the catalog itself and
several other databases as well: copyright information; a directory
of organizations; a file of foreign law, particularly for Latin
America; and the federal legislation file, which contains the full
text of bills introducted in the U.S. Congress.

     Another method of accessing remote libraries is through GOPHER
(see next section).

II. GOPHER

     GOPHER is an information service that provides users
convenient access to both local documents and databases and campus
information services at other institutions, all from the same menu.
It is possible to TELNET to other univerities and use their gophers
to connect not only to library catalogs, but to many other sources
of information as well.

     The following gophers, available on the Internet, work well:

     infoslug.ucsc.edu  (University of California, Santa Cruz)

     consultant.micro.umn.edu  (University of Wisconsin)

     ccat.sas.upenn.edu  (University of Pennsylvania)

     The command is:  telnet + the internet address as given above.

     Once connected, follow on screen instructions.

     INFOSLUG, a typical GOPHER, opens with a menu that includes
selections with information about the UC Santa Cruz campus and
community (class schedule, reserve reading lists, phone books,
calendar, student organizations); and instructions on the use of
GOPHER.

     Of more interest are the selections entitled "Library," which
includes collections of electronic journals and reference sources,
and "Researcher," which provides access to a wide range of data and
information sources and funding agencies. The "Library" menu
presents a selection, "Other Libraries," that behaves much like
LIBTEL, in that it connects the user to libraries throughout the
world. The menu offers choices of libraries in the United States or
elsewhere. The Library of Congress Catalog appears as a menu choice
after one selects Washington, D.C. as the geographical area.

     Finally, "The World" selection is a gateway to other Internet
Gopher servers around the world, as well as other Internet systems,
U.S. weather reports and more. Among the reference works available
online are: The American English Dictionary, CIA World Fact Book,
Oxford Book of Quotations, Roget's Thesaurus and U.S. Telephone
Area Codes. A "historical documents" section offers the full text
of items such as the Annapolis Convention, the Charlotte Town
Resolves, Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" address, the Paris
Treaty of 1783 and the Rights of Man.

     Some of these sources are available at other GOPHER sites,
while others are unique to U.C. Santa Cruz. What is available
locally is up to interested parties at each campus where the
service is available. The above description provides only a brief
sketch of what is available and more sources appear almost daily.

     Arizona State University established a gopher in April 1993.
It is accessible to all other gophers; conversely, users at Arizona
State University may use the local gopher to log on to any other
gopher in the world.

     EUROPEAN GOPHERS:

          As one example of the kinds of material available, see
the Archiv gegen Auslaenderfeinlichkeit, Rassismus und
Nationalismus at the Universitaet Saarbruecken. Students there have
placed a collection of materials on both racism and nationalism on
the gopher. There is some skinhead material as well. Most of the
documents are in German; a few are English translations. To reach
the Archiv, choose ASU's gopher, then make the following choices in
sequence: Other Sources; Other Gopher and Information Servers;
Europe; Germany; Univ. of Saarbruecken; Fachbereiche; Gopher-
Projeckt, Philosophisches Fakultaet; Campus Informations-System;
Aktuelle Informationen; and finally, the Archiv. The Archiv
contains information on the various efforts to combat attacks on
foreigners including the texts of newspaper articles.

III.  HISTORY DISCUSSION GROUPS (LISTSERVERS)

     The discussion group is an automated way of sending mail to a
defined list of people (the members of the list). Here are the
instructions for joining one of these groups (some of the British
lists require a different protocol, which is described whenever
necessary below):

     Send an e-mail message to:

     LISTSERV@ + the letters that follow the "@" in the address
given in the list below, e.g., LISTSERV@psuvm, which is the address
for the "History" discussion group. When two addresses are given,
the first is the BITNET, the second is the INTERNET address. Either
may be used.

     The text of the message is simply the word "sub" followed by
the name of the list (the part of the address preceding the "@")
and your name:

     sub history John Smith

     Soon after you have sent this message, you will receive an e-
mail message confirming that your subscription request has been
accepted. This message usually will include some general
instructions about the list, such as how to leave the list, where
to find a list of subscribers, and how to retrieve more detailed
information about LISTSERV commands. You will also receive messages
automatically from that time until you leave the list. When you
expect to be away from your machine for some time, you can either
leave the list or send a command to set your subscription to "NO
MAIL."

     A. List of General Discussion Groups

     HISTORY@PSUVM. The original discussion group for history.
According to the "listowner," Thomas Zielke (Univ. of Oldenbourg),
the purpose of this list is to discuss history as a science,
computers and historians, cultural development, cultural
differences, and philosophy. Dr. Zielke is also Secretary-General
of the History Network. (see section VII)

     HISTOWNR@UBVM. Discussion list for owners of history-related
lists. This list serves two purposes: a) the exchange of mail
between all lists which are dedicated to the discussion of
history-related topics; b) the improvement of communication between
the owners of history-related lists.

     HISTORY-TEACHING. Send e-note to [email-masked].
"Join history-teaching firstname lastname."

     HN-ASK-L@UKANVM. The History Network. Information on History
lists and communications.

     SOCHIST@USCVM. Social History List.  The primary subject of
this list is the discussion of the following characteristics of
social history: a) Reliance on quantitative measurement; b)
Borrowing from the theoretical constructs of the social sciences,
e.g. demography, sociology, economics, political science, etc. c)
Discovery of the history of groups previously glossed over or
ignored in traditional historical accounts, i.e. families, women,
blacks, labor groups., etc.

     SOS-DATA@UNCVM1. Social Science Data.

     [email-masked]. Urban History was set up at the
University of Illinois at Chicago to provide a forum for scholars
in this field. The UIC history faculty have a long-standing
interest in the history of Chicago and other U.S. cities, ethnicity
and immigration, and European and Russian urban development.
Discussion of cities throughout human history and in all geographic
areas is welcome. H-Urban also plans to store documents, such as
bibliographies, book reviews, teaching materials and descriptions
of computer software. To obtain a list of available documents, send
a note to Listserv@uicvm with the following command: Index H-Urban.
To retrieve a document, send Listserv the command: GET filename
filetype.

     H-WOMEN@UICVM. Women's History.

     WMST-L@UMDD; [email-masked]. Women's Studies List. Formed
at the University of Maryland Women's Studies Program to facilitate
discussion of Women's Studies issues, especially those concerned
with research, teaching and program administration, and to
publicize conferences, job announcements, calls for papers, etc.
The list hopes to serve as a central repository for course
materials, curriculum proposals and bibliographies.

     B. Discussion Groups Arranged Chronologically By Approximate
Period of Coverage

                ANCIENT

     ANCIEN-L@ULKYVM. History of the Ancient Mediterranean ... a
forum for debate, discussion, and the exchange of information by
students and scholars of the history of the Ancient Mediterranean.

     CLASSICS@UWAVM.  Classical Greek and Latin Discussion Group.

     CONTEX-L@UOTTAWA. Ancient Texts Discussion Group List.

     ELENCHUS@UOTTAWA. Christianity in Late Antiquity Discussion
Group.

     IBYCUS-L@USCVM. Ancient Greece.

     IOUDAIOS@YORKVM1; [email-masked]. First Century Judaism
Discussion Forum. IOUDAIOS is an electronic seminar devoted to the
exploration of first-century Judaism; its special interest is in
the writings of Philo of Alexandria and Flavius Josephus.

                    MEDIEVAL

     MEDIEV-L@UKANVM.  MEDIEV-L is an unmoderated list provided as
a forum for discussion by scholars and students of the medieval
period, which, for the purposes of this list, extends from AD 283
to 1500. UKANVM History maintains an anonymous/guest FTP site named
MALIN (See section on FTP Sites).

     MEDFEM-L@INDYCMS; [email-masked]. An open
discussion forum for medievalist feminists. Topics related to or
touching on feminist/women's/gay/lesbian studies are welcome.

     MEDSCI-L@BROWNVM. Medieval and Renaissance science.

     MEDTEXTL@UIUCVMD. Medieval Texts - Philology, Codicology, and
Technology etc.

          RENAISSANCE, REFORMATION, EARLY MODERN

     EMHIST-L@RUTVM1; EMHIST-L@USCVM. Early Modern History Forum.
This list is dedicated to the discussion of Early Modern History,
with all its sub-disciplines: Social, Economic, Regional, Political
History. Inactive?

     ERASMUS. Renaissance and Reformation Studies. Send e-note to
[email-masked]

     FICINO@UTORONTO. Renaissance and Reformation Studies list.
Not open for automatic subscription; prospective subscribers
will receive a questionnaire from the listowner but all those who
wish to apply their skills to its subject matter are welcome. It is
an international electronic seminar and bulletin board devoted  to
all aspects of the European Renaissance and Reformation. Although
the application of computers to the texts and other cultural
artifacts of these periods is a relevant topic, the primary aim of
Ficino is discussion of culture in its widest sense and exchange of
information amongst members.

     RENAIS-L@ULKYVM; [email-masked]. Early Modern
History - Renaissance list. A forum for debate, discussion, and the
exchange of information by students and scholars of the history of
the Renaissance.

          18TH CENTURY THROUGH THE PRESENT

     C18-L@PSUVM. 18th Century Interdisciplinary Discussion
(history and culture).

     EC@INDYCMS. [email-masked].  EC (European Community) is
dedicated to discussion of the European Community, and is open to
all interested persons.

     HOLOCAUS@UICVM. Holocaust.

     VICTORIA@IUBVM; [email-masked].  Victorian
Studies. Devoted to the interdisciplinary field of Victorian
Studies, including all aspects of 19th-century British culture and
society. Victoria covers a period longer than the reign of its
namesake, roughly 1790-1914. It welcomes the contributions of
students of literature, art, social history, gender studies,
politics, or intellectual history. Victoria exists for the
exchanges of research ideas and queries, notices of recent books
and articles, conference listings and job announcements.

     WWII-L@UBVM. WWII-L is a list dedicated to the discussion of
World War II. Tactical, strategic, technological, and political
discussions are welcome.

     C.  Sources arranged geographically

     1. Asia

     CHINA-ND@KENTVM. China News Digest.

     CHINA-NN@ASUACAD. China News Network.

     CHINA@PUCC. Chinese Studies.

     EMEDCH-L@USCVM. Early Medieval China. Devoted to promoting
discussion of the period of Chinese history between the Han and the
Tang dynasties (3rd through 6th centuries A.D.).

     SEASIA-L@MSU. Southeast Asian Studies.

     VWAR-L@UBVM. Vietnam War History.

     2. Austria, Central Europe, Baltic States

     HABSBURG@PURCCVM. Austrian History since 1500.

          Students of Austrian history may also want to try the
online version of Oesterreichische Historische Bibliographie, which
includes the entire run from 1945. Seaching is possible by keywords
(in German), personal name, authors, and subject divisions. It is
also possible to combine searches, e.g., an author or topic in a
particular journal or classification. Searching may be slow. Access
is by telnet to: lcom.edvz.uni.-klu.ac.at (or 143.205.56.9).

     MIDEUR-L@UBVM; [email-masked]. Discussion of Middle
Europe topics. There is also a USENET Newsgroup called
bit.listserv.mideur-l.   (see section V: USENET).

     BALT-L@UBVM. Baltic Republics Discussion List.  There is also
a USENET Newsgroup called bit.listserv.balt-l.

     3. England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland

     ALBION-L@UCSBVM. British and Irish History. Albion is a
discussion list for British and Irish history.  All periods and
interdisciplinary concerns are welcome.

     ANSAX-L@WVNVM. ANSAXNET Discussion Forum. History and culture
of England before 1100 and the early Medieval period throughout
Europe. Scholars interested in the later English Middle Ages and
those interested in the early Medieval period throughout Europe are
also encouraged to join the list. Members receive a directory of
all members in order to facilitate telecommunications, and a
monthly electronic report to which they are encouraged to
contribute announcements and information. This report often
provides members with new information about the use of computers in
some aspect of their disciplines, as well as news of more
conventional developments in the field. Anyone who wants to be a
member of ANSAXNET should send e-mail to the Coordinator, including
a conventional mailing address and some information about your
particular interests in early medieval cultural studies.

     BIRON ARCHIVE SYSTEM. Biron is not a discussion group but a
retrieval system for a collection of 3,000 datasets covering most
areas of social and economic life in the United Kingdom. The
researcher may enter personal names, dates, geographical areas or
particular research methodologies.
          Access: telnet dasun.essex.ac.uk (or: 155.245.96.2).
          Login: biron
          Password: norib

     ESSEX-HISTORY. Historical data archives at ESRC. Send e-note
to [email-masked]. "Join essex-history Firstname
Lastname."

     HISTORY-IHR. Institute of Historical Research. Send e-note to
[email-masked]. "Join history-ihr Firstname Lastname."

     4. France

     [email-masked]. French culture. Send e-note to
Balzac-l-request@cc. montreal.ca.

     FRANCEHS@UWAVM. FRANCEHS exists as a service to those engaged
in the historical study of France. It serves as a forum for the
discussion of scholarly or professional topics of interest to
French historians and scholars in allied fields (such as Art
History, Anthropology, Architecture, Literature, Philosophy,
Political Science, Sociology, among others) whose research and
teaching relate to France and its past. FRANCEHS may also serve to
distribute calls for papers, job listings, questions about archives
and other research resources, announcements of conferences or any
other information of general interest to scholars pursuing
historical perspectives of France. Low activity.

     EROFILE@UCSBUXA. Erofile is a free electronic newsletter that
provides reviews of the latest books associated with French and
Italian studies. This includes the following areas:  literary
criticism, cultural studies, film studies, pedagogy, and software.
Erofile also provides a forum for comments on previously published
reviews in an effort to create an on-going dialogue on issues
relevant to the field.

     5. Germany

     [email-masked]. German literature and
culture. Send e-note to owner at: [email-masked].

     GRMNHIST@DGOGWDG1. GRMNHIST@USCVM. German History Forum. There
is no limitation on subject or period; all sub-fields of German
History will be handled unless there exists a more specialized
forum for the topic in question.

     9NOV89-L@DB0TUI11; 9NOV89-L@UTDALLAS. Events around the Berlin
Wall and E. Europe. Mailing list for whoever may attach a meaning
to the date of 9.11.1989. The list name reflects the  most
important event in recent German history, but it can't and
shouldn't be seen isolated from what happened, and is now
happening, in Poland, the former USSR, and Hungary.

     6. Greece

     HELLAS@AUVM. The Hellenic Discussion List. The language,
preferably, used in this list is Greek (with latin characters).

     7. Iberian Peninsula (Spain, Portugal)

     ESPORA-L@UKANVM. History of the Iberian Peninsula and Spanish
and Portuguese Studies.  The University of Kansas maintain an
anonymous/guest FTP site named MALIN (FTP KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU) which
holds files related to ESPORA in the directory DUA9:[MALIN.ESPORA].
(see section IV.B)

     HISTORY-VASCO. Portugal, 15th-16th centuries. Send e-note to
[email-masked]. "Join history-vasco firstname lastname."

     8. Eastern Europe

     [email-masked]. Baltic Nations Discussion List.

     [email-masked]. Hungary Discussion List.

     MIDEUR-L@UBVM. Middle European Discussion List.

     [email-masked]. Poland Discussion List.

     RUSHIST@DOSUNI1. Russian History.

     [email-masked]. Russian Discussion List.

     SOVHIST@DOSUNI1. Soviet History.

     [email-masked]. Digest of USSR News.

     [email-masked]. Information list of USSR.

     9. United States and Canada

     AFAM-L@UMCVMB. African-American Research.

     AFAS-L@KENTVM. African-American Studies.

     AMERCATH@UKCC. History of American Catholicism.

     [email-masked]. American Studies (Britain).
Send e-note to [email-masked]. "Join american-studies
Firstname Lastname."

     AMWEST-H@USCVM. American West.

     ASEH-L@TTUVM1. American Society of Environmental Historians.

     L-CHA@UQAM. Canadian Historical Association List. On
computing.

     [email-masked]. U. S. Presidential History, 1789-
1992.

     10. Latin America

     [email-masked]. Latin American Studies Network.

     D. General Lists on Topics Related to History (Alphabetically)

     ACHNEWS. Newsletter of the Association for Computers and the
Humanities. Exists solely for the electronic distribution of the
ACH Newsletter, the newsletter of the Association for Computers and
the Humanities, and is open only to ACH members. Send e-mail to:
achnews@ucsbuxa.

     AHC-L@DGOGWDG1. A mailing list for members of the Association
for History & Computing.

     ARCHIVES@INDYCMS. Archives & Archivists. Archives is for all
persons involved and/or interested in archival theory and practice.

     ASEH-L@TTUVM1; [email-masked]. The list for those
interested in discussing environmental history topics.

     ETHNOHIS@HEARN; [email-masked]. An online discussion
list on the intersection of two disciplines: ethnology and history,
and on topics touching both upon ethnology and history.  Interested
researchers are encouraged to discuss relevant themes, e.g.  'the
anthropology of museums', 'ethnographical collections', 'missionary
photography', methodological issues, or all topics covered by
journals such as GRADHIVA and HISTORY AND ANTHROPOLOGY.

     GREEN@INDYCMS; [email-masked]. Green movements study
list dedicated to the study of Green movements worldwide and their
influence on public opinion and public policy.

     GUTNBERG@UIUCVMD. An e-text archive for machine-readable,
chiefly literary, English-language texts.  Issues a newsletter,
Machine Readable Texts. Offers assistance in selection of
hardware/software for scanning, etc.

     HISLAW-L@ULKYVM; [email-masked]. History of
Law (Feudal, Common, Canon). HISLAW-L is ready to distribute
newsletters from study groups, and to post announcements of
meetings and calls for papers, short scholarly pieces, queries, and
other items of interest.

     HISTEC-L@UKANVM. History of evangelical Christianity.
Subscription and review are private.  The University of Kansas
maintain an anonymous/guest FTP site named MALIN (FTP
KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU) which holds files related to HISTEC in the
directory DUA9:[MALIN.ESPORA] DUA9:[MALIN.HISTEC].

     [email-masked]. Methods. Send e-note to
[email-masked]. "Join history-methods Firstname Lastname."

     HTECH-L@SIVM. Dedicated to discussion of material of interest
to historians of technology.

     HPSST-L@QUCDN. History and Philosophy of Science.

     HUMANIST@BROWNVM. Humanities Computing list. Excellent general
source for information on computing and humanities and related
topics such as new listservers, etc.

     ISLAM-L@ULKYVM. History of Islam.

     MILHST-L@UKANVM. Military history; semi-popular.

     PEACE@INDYCMS. Peace (Peace studies) is dedicated to
discussion of peace studies, conflict management and resolution,
and peace and justice education.  Peace is open to all interested
persons, including professionals in these disciplines and
interested laypeople.

     SCHOLAR@CUNYVM. Online Information for Natural Language
Processors (may include topics on the editing of historical texts).

     SEDIT-L@UMDD. Editors of Scholarly Editions.

     SHAKER@UKCC. Shakers.

     SHARP-L@IUBVM; [email-masked]. History of the
Printed Word in affiliation with the newly-founded Society for the
History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. SHARP-L means to
give all who take an interest in this burgeoning field a way of
exchanging ideas, information, and inquiries with other scholars in
all disciplines all over the world. Whether your interest is
incunabula or 20th-century American periodicals, literacy studies
0r the economics of the book trade, library history or literary
theory, this is a list, and an organization that hopes to bring us
all together and get us acquainted.

     SHOTHC-L@SIVM. History of Computing.

     T-ASSIST@UNMVMA. Teaching Assistants (all departments).

     WORLD-L@UBVM. World History.

IV.  HISTORICAL TEXT ARCHIVES

     The texts of documents (and also some utility-type computer
programs) stored at the sites described below may be retrieved by
means of ftp (File Transfer Protocol), which moves files quickly
from one computer to another, no matter how far apart the two are
physically. All machines connected to the Internet are ftp capable.
There are long lists of ftp sites, most of which can be accessed
through GOPHER, but these are the history related ftp sites as of
March 17, 1993.

     What follows is a brief sketch of the method used to retrieve
these documents. The command to reach one of these sites is:
"ftp" followed by the ftp address, e.g.,

     ftp ftp.msstate.edu

     When connected and prompted for "user," respond with
"anonymous." When prompted for a password, type in your e-mail
address. Use the "cd" command to change to the desired directory
and the "list" or "dir" command to get a list of files (or sub-
directories) within each directory.

     Use the "get" command to retrieve a file, e.g. "get
biblio.Andrew.Jackson." (ASU's computer requires that you follow
this command with a two word filename, separated by a period. It
can be anything you like, e.g., "Jackson.bib.") The document will
be stored in a mainframe computer at ASU and may be read on-screen
by using the x-edit key (F11). Additional commands are necessary to
move the file to your personal computer for editing and printing.

A.  Mississippi State University ftp Archive

     Mississippi State maintains an archive of historical texts
that are available through the FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
procedure. The FTP address is ftp.msstate.edu. The documents are in
the docs/history directory. The archive is maintained by Professor
Don Mabry ([email-masked]).

     Materials include articles on Medieval Europe (in the
subdirectories "articles" and "bibliographies"), a bibliography on
Andrew Jackson (in the subdirectory bibliographies), an extensive
description of the French database ARTFL (in the subdirectory
databases), and many others.

B. MALIN (University of Kansas)

     MALIN is an ftp site maintained by the Department of History
of the University of Kansas for the convenience of the public and
the Historical profession.

     The directions for reaching these directories, and their
general nature, are provided below. Please note that
[malin.directory] must be set off in square brackets. After logging
on (ftp kuhub.cc.ukans.edu), you may reach MALIN's directories with
the following commands:"

CD DUA9:[MALIN.GENERAL]  GENERAL contains some On-Line Library
                         Catalogue Lists, Lists of LISTSERV lists
                         and Other Resources.

CD DUA9:[MALIN.ARTICLES] ARTICLES contains various papers
                         delivered at meetings and turned over to
                         MALIN to be made available to a wider
                         public.

CD DUA9:[MALIN.ESPORA]   ESPORA contains bibliographies, articles,
                         a large collection of summaries of
                         medieval Aragonese charters, etc. ESPORA
                         also houses the newsletters of the
                         American Academy of Research Historians of
                         Medieval Spain.

CD DUA9:[MALIN.HISTEC]   HISTEC {described above}

CD DUA9:[MALIN.INSTRUCTION]  INSTRUCTION contains syllabi,
                         examinations, identification question
                         lists, and other material for
                         instructional purposes.

CD DUA9:[MALIN.KUHIST]   KUHIST serves KUHIST-L@UKANVM, the
                         University of Kansas Department of
                         History's list for members, alumni, and
                         friends...

CD DUA9:[MALIN.MED-L]    Contains several topical bibliographies,
                         articles, historiographic essays, and
                         similar materials on medieval history.

CD DUA9:[MALIN.UTILITIES] Utility programs

C. GHETA

     GHETA is a European ftp site, located in the Netherlands. It
is managed by George Welling, a specialist in historical computing
at the University of Groningen. Log on with the command:

     ftp tyr.let.rug.nl

     The directories are as follows: datasets; e-documents; index;
magazines; and programs. One of the first items to be made
available at this site was the proceedings of the Conference on
Archiving and Disseminating Historical Machine Readable Data, held
at Leiden in 1990. The papers are found in the subdirectory
"gheta\magazines\vgi.cahiers\cahiers5."

D. History FTP Site: byrd.mu.wvnet.edu

     This site is located at Marshall University, Huntington, W.Va.
Although it is the newest site, it already includes a wide variety
of sources, e.g., frequently asked questions about Internet; lists
of interest to historians; ftp sites for historians; texts of
documents (Atlantic Charter; Cairo Conference Agreement; Japanese
surrender, etc.).

     There are directories of information dealing with US military
history, especially Vietnam and World Wars I and II; women's
history; syllabi for history courses; and utilities (file
compression and decompression).

V. USENET GROUPS

     USENET functions somewhat similarly to listservers in that
participants exchange opinions and comments. Although some groups
are moderated, most are unmoderated and more frequently feature
informal comments and information.  Many of the comments and
responses--some of them flames when the topics are, as most of
themare, controversial--are oriented towards political or social
questions and less frequently towards academic historical
questions. Since group participants frequently resort to historical
antecedents to substantiate their opinions, there are postings of
historical documents that are useful to have in electronic form.
Also, recent posting from the History Discussion Group are also
available for examination on USENET (useful if you want to read the
messages but don't want to fill up your electronic mail box).

     USENET is available to anyone who has an e-mail account with
ASU's OfficeVision system (formerly Profs). From the opening menu,
choose #11, Newnews, which will bring up a menu entitled "ASU
Conferences and Bulletin Board System"). Menu item PF5 includes the
History Discussion Group; item PF5 includes most of those listed
below.

     It is possible to move forward a screen at a time with the PF8
key or to issue the command "Display History" to move directly to
that group's messages.

     The following usenet groups, in addition to those listed above
under listserver names, might interest historians.

soc.culture.african
     Discussions about Africa and things African.
soc.culture.african american
     Discussions about Afro-American issues.
soc.culture.asean
     Countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
soc.culture.asian.American
     Issues and discussion about Asian-Americans.
soc.culture.british
     Mostly political or social commentary about Britain and those
     of British descent
soc.culture.celtic
     Mostly political or social commentary, especially Irish
soc.culture.china
     About China and Chinese culture
soc.culture.french
     Miscellaneous topics from finding hotels to history and
     politics in French and English.
soc.culture.german
     German affairs, particularly right-wing movements in Germany.
soc.culture.greek  (Particularly Balkan questions and Macedonia as
     of 12/92)
soc.culture.hongkong
     Discussions pertaining to Hong Kong
soc.culture.japan
     Everything Japanese (except the language)
soc.culture.jewish
     Jewish culture and religion
soc.culture.korean
     Discussions about Korea and things Korean
soc.culture.latin-america
     Topics about Latin-America
soc.culture.polish
     Polish culture, history, politics

soc.culture.taiwan
     Discussion about things Taiwanese
soc.culture.vietnamese
     Issues and discussions of Vietnamese culture
soc.feminism
     Discussion of feminism and feminist issues
soc.history and soc.culture.europe
     (Consists almost entirely of cross-postings from other
     regionally oriented lists with few original messages)
talk.politics.mideast
     Discussion and debate over Middle Eastern events
talk.politics.soviet
     Discussion of Soviet politics, domestic and foreign

               VI. ELECTRONIC JOURNALS AND NEWSLETTERS

     A growing number of serial-type publications are now being
published as electronic documents and are available (mostly free)
on the Internet. There are as yet no scholarly electronic journals
in History, but there are a few that might be of some interest to
historians.

Clionet. An electronic journal of history based on the gopher
server at James Cook University in Australia. Although particularly
interested in the work of younger scholars, it welcomes all
contributions, regardless of the author's status or field.
     Access: James Cook University gopher server, under "Acadenic
Departments." Clionet is also available in HN-SOURCE (see below).

Data Entries. Newsletter of the Texas Women's University Library.
It covers developments in the Woman's Collection (claimed to be
among the finest in the nation).

     To subscribe, send a note requesting a subscription to one of
the following addresses: s_natale@twu or [email-masked].

EHN: Economic History Newsletter. 1993-  Written by Ph.d students
at the London School of Economics and the European University
Institute, Florence, Italy. Aimed at researchers in the field of
economic history. Includes news about conferences and seminars;
funding for research; book reviews; job ads; information on using
computerized research tools. Subscribers to the newsletter
automatically join a related discussion group.

     To subscribe, send a one line message to
[email-masked]. The message should be:

     JOIN history-econ <first name> <last name>

OMHR. Online Modern History Review. Send e-note to editor at
[email-masked].

Postmodern Culture. 1991-   An electronic journal of
interdisciplinary studies. Publishes writing which ranges from
analytical essays and reviews to video scripts and other new
literary forms. One aim of this publication is to open the
discussion of postmodernism to a wide audience, to encourage
reconsideration of the forms and practices of academic writing, and
to experiment with departures from the traditional idea of
published texts as immutable and monologic.

     To subscribe, send the following message to listserv@ncsuvm:

     sub pmc-list <first name> <last name>

The New Historicus; A Kansas Journal of History. 1993-
Published by the Graduate Association of Students of History of the
University of Kansas. The editorial board encourages all graduate
students in History to submit manuscripts. Considers all areas and
periods. Encourages short articles (ten screens, or 220 lines),
including notes and bibliography. Articles will be refereed.

     For information, send e-mail to TNH@UKANVM. Information is
also available at the Malin ftp site (ftp kuhub.cc.ukans.edu -
dua9:malin.tnh).

REACH: Research and Educational Applications of Computers in the
Humanities. Newsletter of the Humanities Computing Facility of the
University of California, Santa Barbara.

     To subscribe, send e-mail to [email-masked].

               VII.    THE HISTORY NETWORK

     The History Network is an international collaborative effort
by academic historians and students to maximize the potential of
Bitnet and Internet. Conceived by Thomas Zielke in 1992, it has
quickly evolved into a viable organization devoted to dissemination
of the resources and education required to introduce historians to
the world of electronic communication. The seven divisions of The
History Network and their responsibilities are:

1. Organization: set agenda for Division Director conferences,
gather statistics, resolve inter-Divisional conflicts, manage legal
affairs, handle relations with governments, governmental agencies,
and networks, and represent History Network at conferences.
Director: Thomas Zielke, University of Oldenburg,
[email-masked].

2. Resources: develop and disseminate information on distribution
sites (FTP, Gopher, WAIS, Veronica), digital materials collection
and development, and access to data bases. Director: Donald Mabry,
Mississippi State University, [email-masked].

3. Scholarly Exchange:  facilitate new and ongoing discussion lists
and conferences, including posting of publications and notices.
Director: open.

4. Technical Development, responsible for software development,
list operation enhancement, journal and conference presentation
methods, and technological adaptation. Director: Ellis "Skip Knox,
Boise State University, [email-masked].

5. Education: recruitment, network training, demonstrations,
manuals and handbooks and more). Director: Richard Jensen,
University of Illinois, Chicago, [email-masked].

6. Professional Standing: promote recognition of electronic efforts
of historians, including electronic publication and service credit;
represent History Network at conferences and conventions; offer
organizational support; general publicity. Director: open.

7. Finance: Fund-raising for History Network. Director: Richard
Jensen.

     The History Network was developed at the same time as another
similar effort known as H-Net was being planned at the University
of Illinois in Chicago. Richard Jensen, professor of history, and
two graduate students were planning a project for training
historians about the nets, and using history materials drawn from
the networks. H-Net's main goal is to get historians to use their
computers for communications and analysis, as well as the word
processing with which most have become comfortable. Instead of
disputing the territory, the History Network and H-Net have joined
forces, with H-Net becoming the Education Division of the History
Network.

     H-Net is working with the American Historical Association and
other established history groups, and with college and university
history departments, to provide faculty training in the
communications capabilities of PCs.  Its training materials will be
published on the History Network. H-Net has been officially
endorsed by the AHA, the Organization of American Historians, and
the Southern Historical Association, and will run training
workshops at their annual conventions.

     H-Net has established HN-SOURCE, a central information server
for historians, who may access it via Internet to obtain a menu of
files and discussion groups. It provides "newsletter" like services
for the profession as a whole, including announcements of
conferences and fellowships, postings of job vacancies, reports on
convention proceedings, lists of databases and FTP sites that
contain materials relevant to historical studies. It also connects
the user to history-related electronic journals and newsletters.
HN-SOURCE acts like a gopher in that it connects the user to the
computer that contains the information listed in its menus.

Access to HN-SOURCE: TELNET hnsource.cc.ukans.edu
                     Login as "history." No password is required.

     The major new source H-Net intends to create is a combined
retro- spective index to the major history journals, based on the
indexes prepared for individual journals. The result will be a
large on-line source that will be accessed (free) by a key word
search.

     The History Network is barely two months old (as of March 18,
1993), and will need the participation of professionals, graduate
students and undergraduates alike to grow and prosper. The Network
promises to serve the history community of the 21st century in ways
commensurate with the changes in technology, communication and
history itself. The History Network idea promises to link
historians together worldwide, speeding messages, creating
connections, sharing work and ideas, making personal contacts, and
exploring new ways to use the incredibly powerful computer and
communications technology of our time. All kinds of talent are
needed and desired; many people could join the volunteers already
working on the project in a variety of areas, or suggest an angle
or project we have not thought about.

     Volunteers interested in helping out in any of the divisions
can send a note to the division director, or directly to the
History Network at: HN-ASK-L@UKANVM.

ABSEES Online - American Bibliography of Slavic and East
European Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
     ABSEES Online contains bibliographic citations for journal
articles, books, book chapters, and Ph.D. dissertations on Eastern
Europe and the former Soviet Union published in the United States
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and Canada.  The ABSEES staff screen almost 400 journal titles each

year. This service requires VT100 emulation.
               Access:  telnet alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (128.174.4.10)
               Login: absees
               Password: slavibib

Holocaust Archive
     This archive contains a variety of information related to the
Holocaust.
               Access: ftp.sura.net (128.167.254.179)
               Directory: pub/nic
               File: holocaust.archive