some of the lists that are now active: Richard Jensen campbelld@apsu [copy freely & circulate & send along corrections to H-Net at u12923@uicvm.bitnet] H-Net Guide to History Conferences (Lists) on Bitnet March 24, 1993 --BITNET address theme of list listname@node (where node = name of computer host) 1. AFAM-L@UMCVMB African-American Research 2. AFAS-L@KENTVM African American Studies and Librarianship 3. AHC-L@DGOGWDG1 Association for History & Computing 4. ALBION-L@UCSBVM British and Irish History 5. AMLIT-L@MIZZOU1 American Literature [very active] 6. AMERCATH@UKCC History of American Catholicism 7. AMERSTDY@miamiu American Studies [defunct; do not subscribe] 8. AMWEST-H@uscvm American West [active] 9. ANCIEN-L@ULKYVM History of the Ancient Mediterranean 10. ANSAX-L@WVNVM Anglo Saxon [very active, technical] 11. ARCH-L@tamvm1 Archaeology [low activity] 12. ARCHIVES@INDYCMS Archives & Archivists [active] 13. ASEH-L@TTUVM1 Am. Soc. of Environmental Historians 14. BALZAC-L@cc.umontreal.ca French culture [send e-note to Balzac-l-request@cc.umontreal.ca ] 15. 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 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" 16. CADUCEUS medical history; email to ibowman@utmbeach 17. C18-L@psuvm 18th century history & culture [active] 18. CHINA@PUCC Chinese Studies 19. CLASSICS@UWAVM Classical Greek and Latin [very active] 20. CLIO-L@miamiu Economic history [defunct; do not subscribe] 21. CLIONET Australian journal (not yet operational) 22. deutsche-liste@ccu.umanitoba.ca German lit & culture [send e-note to owner at: colappe@ccu.umanitoba.ca ] 23. EARAM-L@KENTVM Society of Early Americanists [inactive?] 24. EMEDCH-L@uscvm The Early Medieval China 25. EMHIST-L@uscvm early modern Europe [inactive?] 26. EPP-L@BUACCA Albert Einstein Papers and Discussion 27. Erasmus Renaissance & Reformation Studies send enote to bowen@vm.epas.utoronto.ca [internet address] 28. ESPORA-L@ukanvm Spain/Portugal 29. ETHNOHIS@HEARN Ethnohistory 30. FICINO@UTORONTO FICINO Renaissance/Ref. 31. FOLKLORE@TAMVM1 Folklore 32. FRANCEHS@UWAVM French history [low activity] 33. grmnhist@uscvm German history 34. HABSBURG@PURCCVM Austrian History since 1500 35. HISLAW-L@ULKYVM History of Law (Feudal, Common, Canon) 36. HISTEC-L@ukanvm History of Evangelical Christianity 37. HISTOWNR@UBVM Editors of History lists! 38. history@psuvm Generic history [very active; semi-pop] 39. HOPOS-L@UKCC History of Science 40. HLIST@oneb.almanac.bc.ca Holocaust Research 41. HN-Ask-L@ukanvm Information on History Lists & communications 42. HPSST-L@QUCDN History and Philosophy of Science 43. HTECH-L@SIVM History of Technology [active] 44. HUMANIST@brownvm Humanists [active] 45. HUMGRAD@MAILBASE.AC.UK Graduate students in Humanities (Brit) 46. H-Urban@uicvm Urban History 47. IBYCUS-L@uscvm Ibycus (Ancient Greek) 48. IOUDAIOS@YORKVM1 First Century Judaism 49. ISLAM-L@ULKYVM History of Islam 50. JUDAICA@UMiNN1 Judaic Studies [dormant] 51. L-CHA@UQAM Canadian Hist Assn on Computing 52. LASNET@EMX.UTEXAS.EDU Latin American Studies Network 53. maps@uga Maps 54. MCLR-L@MSU Latino Research 55. MEDFEM-L@INDYCMS medievalist feminists 56. MEDIEV-L@ukanvm Medieval 57. MEDSCI-L@brownvm Medieval and Renaissance science 58. MEDTEXTL@uiucvmd Medieval Texts, Philology, Codicology 59. MILHST-L@ukanvm Military History [active; semi-popular] 60. MUSEUM-L@UNMVMA Museums 61. OMHR Online Modern History Review send e-note to editor at ua832@freenet.victoria.bc.ca 62. ORTRAD-L@MIZZOU1 Oral traditons 63. PSRT-L@MIZZOU1 Pol Science/ constl law book reviews [good] 64. POLI-SCI@RUTVM1 Political Science Digest 65. RENAIS-L@ULKYVM Renaissance 66. ROOTS-L@NDSUVM1 Genealogy [very active] 67. rushist@dosuni1 Russian History 68. SEDIT-L@UMDD Editors of scholarly editions 69. SEASIA-L@MSU Southeast Asian Studies 70. shaker@ukcc Shakers 71. SHARP-L@IUBVM History of Authorship, Reading 72. SOCHIST@uscvm New Social History [low activity] 73. SOS-DATA@UNCVM1 Social Science Data 74. SHOTHC-L@SIVM History of Computing 75. sovhist@dosuni1 Soviet History 76. T-ASSIST@UNMVMA Teaching assistants (all departments) 77. VICTORIA@IUBVM Victorian studies 78. VWAR-L@UBVM Vietnam War [history, pop culture very active] 79. WMST-L@UMDD Women's Studies. [active; little history] 80. WORLD-L@UBVM World History [active, non-eurocentric] 81. WWII-L@UBVM World War II A. 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