H-California is one of the networks of H-NET published by the University of Illinois, Chicago and Michigan State University with additional funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. H-NET is a broad initiative to establish electronic communications among historians and to educate historians and other scholars in the use of electronic media. H-NET has been endorsed by the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association. Please click below for further information. For further information:

The primary purpose of H-California is to enable historians to easily communicate current research and teaching interests; to discuss new articles, books, papers, approaches, methods and tools of analysis; to test new ideas and share comments and tips on teaching. Relevant extracts from the H-NET JOB GUIDE will be posted, as will fellowship announcements, etc. Organizers of pertinent conferences and symposia are encouraged to post calls for papers and program contents. H-California will attempt to stimulate dialogues on teaching California history through publication of course syllabi and reading lists, course handouts, bibliographies or guides to term papers. Reports on new archival or bibliographic sources, new software, datasets or CD-ROMS will be welcomed.

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Contributing to H-California

Subscribers are encouraged to send materials for the H-California list relating to any of the above topics. Also they may wish to send specific queries. To send material for posting on H-California, email it to:

• H-California@h-net.msu.edu

H-California is a moderated list. Your postings will be collected by one of the editors and posted to the list generally on a daily basis. This process filters extraneous materials (such as subscription requests) and/or posts which are irrelevant or inappropriate to H-California. No editing of posts will normally be done except as follows or to add name/address headers or subject lines if needed. Lengthy documents over approximately 100 lines should be prefaced with a short abstract (about 10 lines). Long postings frequently use up subscribers' available disk space and are time-consuming to page through. Therefore the editors, at the request of the posting party or at their own discretion, may archive the full text on the H-California listserv, posting only the abstract and providing subscribers with instructions on how to access the full text electronically using the GET command.

H-Net respects the copyrights of authors whose material is posted on its lists and/or stored in its logs, fileservers, and gopher. Authors who post items to H-Net lists convey to H-Net only the right to reproduce electronically their work on H-Net lists and in H-Net files.

H-Net owns the name of each subject-area list, its roster of subscribers, its on-line files, and its gopher and related files. H-Net's assertion of ownership is meant only to protect the rights of H-Net and shall not infringe on the copyrights of authors regarding any files or documents they may have made available to H-Net.

Contributions to H-California can be short questions or long documents. Please sign your name and e-mail address to each contribution (we will add the name/address otherwise.)

To send a contribution to H-California, use one of the following:

• Send an e-mail post directly to H-California@h-net.msu.edu
  
• When you read a message from H-California, use the reply or answer command (enter REPLY, type a response, and send it).

If you use a word processor like Word Perfect or Microsoft Word, save the document as a plain ASCII (or "text" or "dos") file. Upload it to your mainframe (your departmental guru will explain how.) Use the "SENDFILE" command to send it to H-California. Please do NOT send binary files or encoded files, as we have trouble decoding them.

Some contributors responding to a post quote the original post by forwarding it along with their reply. If you use this procedure, please avoid quoting too much of the post you are replying to. Ten or more consecutive lines of quoted material is probably too much.

Never quote a signature file, unless of course, you are commenting on it. People saw it the first time and can easily retrieve it from the log files.

Please do not employ massive signature files. Four lines is a good limit. ASCII art can cause havoc with some systems that don't process certain special characters.