"Hearing the actual voices of the past can bring history alive in a way that reading a transcribed text never can,” noted Mark Kornbluh, Director of MATRIX. “Digital technologies now allow us to recapture the sounds of the past and make them freely available to students, teachers, and all Americans through the World Wide Web."

"Anticipating a future with widespread access to large digital libraries of video, a great deal of research is currently focused on many areas related to digital video. Research in these areas requires that each investigator acquire and digitize video for their studies since the multimedia information retrieval community does not yet have a standard collection of video to be used for research purposes.

"Stalinka is intended as an online resource for students, teachers, scholars, and anyone conducting research on Stalin/ism.

"Google News Timeline is a web application that organizes search results chronologically. It allows users to view news and other data sources on a browsable, graphical timeline.

"This coming January 7–10, 2010 make your way to sunny San Diego for the AHA’s 124th Annual Meeting.  This event offers opportunities for sharing scholarship, finding jobs, and exploring the San Diego area from the Gaslamp Quarter to the Marina to the beach.

Now posted on the AHA’s Annual Meeting page is information on hotel accommodations, meeting registration rates, the exhibit hall, getting around, and more.

"Imperial Japan’s 1904–05 war against Tsarist Russia changed the global balance of power. The first war to be widely illustrated in postcards, the Japanese view of the conflict is presented in images from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection of Japanese Postcards at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston."