When I was researching this book in the early 1990s, I had to guess where I was likely to find published references to "heterosexual". But in the eleven years since 'Invention' was published, we've witnessed the spectacular advance of electronic database indexing, and the new availability of searchable texts of entire books, articles, and the full run of Major newspapers and periodicals, some going back to the nineteenth century and earlier. These now make possible many new, enlightening, and entertaining studies of what has been said in the mass media and academia about the "heterosexual", "heterosexuals", and "heterosexuality". Just try a search, be amused, be amazed, and let bloom a thousand term papers, theses, scholarly articles, and books!
(Jonathan Katz, The Invention of Heterosexuality: with a new preface, University of Chicago Press 2007 (1995), Preface 2006, http://books.google.de/books?id=S8BB1K361SUC&pg=PR7)

In the first chapter of this fascinating book, The Genealogy of a Sex Concept, Katz writes:

"A year earlier [1975], historian Carroll Smith-Rosenberg had published a path-breaking article on nineteenth-century American women's intense, eros-filled friendships, "The Female World of Love and Ritual". To understand those intimacies, she suggested, we need to go beyond the either/or, heterosexual/homosexual Division, and embrace the idea of a "continuum" of such relations. (...) With others, I was beginning to sense the distorting effect of employing the heterosexual/homosexual distinction in retrospective historical analysis. (...)

... If we have trouble imagining a world without heterosexuals or homosexuals, a historical perspective is useful. The term "homosexual" was only invented in 1869 [the year's now been moved back to '68]. The first use of "heterosexual" listed in the Oxford English Dictionary Supplement dates to 1901. [The most recent Oxford English Dictionary Supplement takes the date back to 1892, and "heterosexual" has also been traced to 1868.
The terms heterosexual and homosexual apparently came into common use only in the first quarter of this century; before that time, if words are clues to concepts, People did not conceive of a social universe polarized into heteros and homos."

By 1981, I had heard a young feminist historian and friend, Lisa Duggan, read a draft of a paper on women, American society in the 1920s, and "the social enforcement of heterosexuality". A few days later Duggans phrase set off in my head a flash of Illumination ... : "Heterosexuality wasn't only 'enforced', it was invented.' "

... and, in retrospective, again from the 2006 preface:

"My revised judgement about the role of words in the creation of "heterosexuality" and "homosexuality", is that those specific, historical phenomena did not exist, and could not have existed as such, before the words "heterosexual" and "homosexual" (and associated ideas) were available to describe them. (...) Actually, influenced and inspired by Karl Marx, I think that words, ideas, and ideals (like "heterosexual") are among our major means of production. Our struggle over the ownership, control, and shaping of those means is key to the future of heterosexuality, the other existing sexualities, and the new sexualities to come."

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Without images (?!).

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Via
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-28519247

"The DiRT Directory is a registry of digital research tools for scholarly use. DiRT makes it easy for digital humanists and others conducting digital research to find and compare resources ranging from content management systems to music OCR, statistical analysis packages to mindmapping software."

http://dirtdirectory.org

http://gizmodo.com/how-to-scan-50-miles-of-historical-documents-into-an-on-1609143001

"The Venice Time Machine will digitize and catalog a staggering amount of historical documents—a combined 50 miles worth of shelves!—then turn the data into an internet archive and adaptable 3D model."

Theodore C. Bergstrom, Paul N. Courant, R. Preston McAfee, and Michael A. Williams
Evaluating big deal journal bundles
PNAS 2014 ; published ahead of print June 16, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1403006111
Free version:
http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~tedb/Journals/PNAS-2014-Bergstrom-1403006111.pdf
Data supplement
http://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2014/06/11/1403006111.DCSupplemental/pnas.1403006111.sapp.pdf

Excerpt:

"So what secrets of the big deal have Freedom of Information
requests allowed us to uncover?

We find that even with the institution-specific discounts resulting
from bundled purchases, the prices per citation charged to
large PhD-granting universities by major commercial publishers
are much higher than those charged by major nonprofit publishers.
Among the commercial publishers in our study, Elsevier’s
prices per citation are nearly 3 times those charged by the nonprofits, whereas Emerald, Sage, and Taylor & Francis have prices per citation that are roughly 10 times those of the nonprofits.
[...]
The contracts that we have seen show remarkable institutionspecific price variations that cannot be explained by university characteristics such as enrollment and PhD production. Some institutions have been quite successful in bargaining for lower
prices, whereas others may not have been aware that better
bargains can be reached. Perhaps this variation explains publishers’
desire to keep contract terms confidential."

See also

http://www.infodocket.com/2014/06/18/new-research-article-evaluating-big-deal-journal-bundles/

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jun/16/universities-get-poor-value-academic-journal-publishing-firms?CMP=twt_gu

http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2014/06/18/is-your-big-deal-a-good-deal/

http://www.attemptingelegance.com/?p=2517

http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=12693

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2014/07/01/good-resources-on-world-war-one/