Fairfax, Va. - Approaching the sixth anniversary of the 9-11 attacks, George Mason University's Center for History and New Media (CHNM) said on Monday that it has released thousands of items of previously unavailable historical content through its September 11 Digital Archive.

The archive, available at the link below, contains more than 150,000 digital objects such as e-mails, photographs, stories and videos, and is the largest repository of digital materials related to the attacks.

The archive ceased publishing new material in mid-2004, but continued to collect stories, images and other artifacts.

Now, with the site's relaunch, the full scope of the archive will be accessible to both researchers and the public.

"In what has become a growing trend, actual eyewitnesses to world-changing events are now able to add their reflections, through digital archiving, to the historical record," said Tom Scheinfeldt, the assistant director of CHNM. "The September 11 Digital Archive is a major part of this effort."

Related Links:
http://www.911digitalarchive.org