Many thanks to Ann Pfau who sent me the link to this site. It is absolutely fascinating. Here is the description:
Columbia University Press is pleased to announce that Gutenberg-e is now an open access site. These award winning monographs, coordinated with the American Historical Association, afford emerging scholars new possibilities for online publications, weaving traditional narrative with digitized primary sources, including maps, photographs, and oral histories. The American Council of Learned Societies also carry Gutenberg-e titles on their Humanities E-Book platform.
Here are just a few of the titles listed on the front page:
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
Between Winds and Clouds: the Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE-Twentieth Century CE)
Ann has her own monograph on the site: Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II
Unfortunately, it seems that the books can only be printed or read on the computer as I cannot find any links to download the files. Still, it’s a great resource.
You don’t get the enhanced images or the links if you print out and read away from your computer but you *can* do it.
There are pdfs for each chapter available in each book site and hot printing is also a possibility.
If you download the pdfs you can send them to your Kindle (I understand Amazon charges about 15 cents per .pdf, .doc file,etc.)