In 2005, THDL is turning the corner from an initial startup period (2000-2005) to enter what we conceive of as our second period  of development (2005-2009). The first period begin without funding, technology, or partnerships, and was frankly quite stressfull and often uncertain.  The good news, however, is that we survived!  With a new four year grant from the US Department of Education, we can now build upon these achivements to focus much more on content and end users. During the summer of 2005 we will be putting in place a four year plan focusing on integration, huge bodies of content, and usability issues. We will also be opening THDL much more to direct input from scholars in very granular ways - studies of a single word, a single place, and so forth.