Brooklyn Museum Exhibit: Brooklyn Sanitary Fair of 1864

Healing the Wounds of War: The Brooklyn Sanitary Fair of 1864
(Brooklyn Museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, January 29 - October 17, 2010)
The website includes a link to an informative Teacher Resource Packet that accompanies the exhibit.

Forthcoming digital collection: Australian Women's Weekly

The International Business Times reports on the National Library of Australia will digitize this iconic magazine, from it's first issue in 1933 to December, 1982. More about the Australian Women's Weekly Project from the National Library of Australia.

Topics in Chronicling America

Chronicling America provides free access to more than a million historic American newspaper pages. Topics in Chronicling America provides a good starting point for exploring the collection. Each featured topic page includes a timeline of important events, suggested search terms, and links to sample articles in the collection. Two relevant topics:
Clara Barton and Bloomer Girls (Women's baseball).

The Newberry Minute

The Newberry Library is using YouTube to highlight specific items in its collections. Recent features include the Letters to Jemima Hall, 1836-1837and Fraktur, Hanna Konigmacher, 1768.

Eve Drewelowe Digital Collection

Pioneering artist Eve Drewelowe featured in digital archive (University of Iowa Press Release)
Eve Drewelowe (1899-1988) received the University of Iowa’s first Master’s degree in studio arts.
This collection includes more than 700 items (paintings, sketchbooks, scrapbooks and correspondence).

New Book - Mercy Otis Warren: Selected Letters

Mercy Otis Warren: Selected Letters, edited by Jeffrey H. Richards and Sharon M. Harris. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009.

This volume includes more than 100 letters (many previously unpublished) written by historian Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814). Warren's correspondents included Martha and George Washington, Abigail and John Adams, and Catharine Macaulay.
WorldCat record (links to holding libraries and Google preview)