RR 2009/290Discovering American Women's History Online Available to Purchase

This is an extraordinary and award‐winning site. Primary resources are difficult to find, primary sources about women even more so. This phenomenal database of more than 400 digital collections allows ready access to women's history from the mainstream to the obscure, and will be very useful to historians of all kinds, from history day students to professional historians. The primary document types include advertisements, book covers, comic books, correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, and lots of photographs as well as films, buttons, and every kind of ephemera.

The web site recently won the ABC‐CLIO award created “to encourage, recognize and commend professional...