The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, known as the 9/11 Commission, was an independent, bipartisan commission created by Congress. The Commission’s mandate was to provide a “full and complete accounting” of the attacks of September 11, ...
On January 21, in one of his first official acts, President Barack Obama revoked the Bush administration’s Executive Order 13233 that severely limited access by the public to presidential records. Click here to see a copy of President Obama’s new ...
Nondestructive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry? Fourier-transform infrared spectrometry analysis? Forget the dense terminology in a recent Getty news release, unless you happen to be a conservation scientist. For everyone else, here’s the latest scoop from the Getty Conservation Institute: Scientist Dusan ...
From The Daily Chronicle , January 20, 2009 Users around the world now have access to the legal papers of Abraham Lincoln, according to a news release from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. “The Law Practice of Abraham ...
LOS ANGELES—Scientists at the Getty Conservation Institute have developed a new chemical analysis technique that could revolutionize the authentication of historic photographs. In the past, photographs have typically been identified through visual or microscopic inspection, a method that relies on ...
HAVANA – Cuba on Monday began accepting requests for electronic access to more than 3,000 documents from Ernest Hemingway’s home on the island, including the unpublished epilogue of “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and coded messages the author sent when ...
The Before Columbus Foundation announces Winners of the Twenty-Eighth Annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS Sunday, December 28, 4:00 – 6:30 P.M. Oakland, CA — The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Twenty-Eighth Annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS. The 2008 American ...
Binghamton University Libraries’ Special Collection’s Edwin A. Link, Jr. Digital Archives were featured in the Fall 2008 ENY/ACRL (Eastern New York Chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries) Newsletter. The Fall 2008 Newsletter was designed to feature digital ...
The Smithsonian Institution will work to digitize its collections to make science, history and cultural artifacts accessible online and dramatically expand its outreach to schools…. http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/16/smithsonian.online.ap/index.html ...
From The Associated Press, Published: July 31, 2008 BERLIN: A major archive in Germany has purchased 15 custom-made scanners to digitize and catalog a huge collection of virtually untapped Holocaust records. The archive at the International Tracing Service in Bad ...