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What a great question as we're all gearing back up for the fall semester. I went through my files and found the following smattering of suggestions:

Ken Albala sketches "the emergence of physiological theories that first made a vegetarian diet ‘good to think’ rather than an intentional and normally religiously motivated form of self-mortification" in "The First Scientific Defense of a Vegetarian Diet," a short lecture from 2009. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/303866393.pdf

The Slavic Reference Service at the University of Illinois has just announced the publication of a new digital collection, “Russian Books of the 18th Century,” which is now freely available on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/reees-18th-c-books

From the announcement:

Since the Russian propaganda has repeatedly described Ukraine as a made-up country with only nationalistic traditions, the Czech history journal Opera historica has provided a simple chronological survey of the history of constitutional liberties in Ukraine. 

Friends:

The Getty Images Archive has posted a large collection of images of the African disapora for free non-profit use.  You can learn more at:

http://press.gettyimages.com/getty-images-launches-initiative-to-elevate-black-history-and-empower-storytellers/

From the press release:

A review of Treasury of Weary Souls, a digital humanities project around a collection of insurance policies that underwrote enslaved people as property, directed by Michael Ralph:

From: National Security Archive <nsarchiv@gwu.edu>

" The online database Old Book Illustrations has catalogued thousands of these illustrations, lifted from their original context and searchable by artist name, source, date, book title, techniques, formats, publishers, subject, etc....  Old Book Illustrations presents itself as a scholarly resource, including a digitized Dictionary of the Art of Printing and sho

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