Embedded Files
There are many resources available to help readers explore facets of 9/11 in more detail. Below are a few of those, as curated by the student authors of this site.
Video clips
Montage of Television News Coverage, September 11, 2001
President Bush's Address to the Nation, September 11, 2001
President Bush's Opening Pitch at Yankee Stadium, October 30, 2001
"Boatlift" — The story of the water evacuation of lower Manhattan
Excerpt from President Bush's Address to Congress, September 20, 2001
President Bush's interview with National Geographic: September 8, 2011
Day of (presidency) - National Geographic - George Bush 9-11 Interview.mp4CNN, "How the U.S. Tracked Down Bin Laden," May 3, 2011
CNN, "The lessons that Obama learned from the Bin Laden raid," May 2, 2016
CBS News, "Minutes felt like hours in the Bin Laden raid," May 3, 2011
President Obama's speech regarding the killing of Bin Laden, May 2, 2011
PBS Newshour, "United States of Secrets," May 13, 2014
Additional Links
9/11 Memorial Museum
Recommended Reading List
The readings below are offered in addition to the material on the pages on this site, and the materials on the "References" page (some of which might overlap). Where possible, the sources are linked.
- The 9/11 Attacks & Their Immediate Aftermath
- Goldberger, Paul. “Building Plans: What the World Trade Center Meant,” The New Yorker, September 24, 2001
- Gopnik, Adam. “The City and the Pillars,” The New Yorker, September 24, 2001
- Lemann, Nicholas. “The Options: After the morning of Sept. 11th, the presidency changed, too,” The New Yorker, October 1, 2001
- “The Day The World Changed,” The Economist, September 13, 2001
- Arts, Culture, and The Media
- “Artistic responses to the 9/11 Attacks,” The Guardian, September 2016
- Beaumont-Thomas, Ben. “Exploring Musical Responses to 9/11,” The Guardian, September 9, 2011
- Flint, Joe et al., “Hollywood Examines Projects With Terrorism-Related Themes,” The Wall Street Journal, September 13, 2001
- Friend, Tad. “Is It Funny Yet? Jon Stewart and the comedy of crisis,” The New Yorker, February 11, 2002
- O’Connor, Colin. “The Artistic Response to 9/11,” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, September 9, 2011
- The CIA, NSA, and Guantánamo
- Boumediene, Lakhdar. “My Guantanamo Nightmare,” The New York Times, January 7, 2012
- Mayer, Jane. “Outsourcing Torture,” The New Yorker, February 14, 2005
- Priest, Dana. “CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons,” The Washington Post, November 2, 2005
- Priest, Dana & Barton Gellman. “U.S. Decries Abuse but Defends Interrogations,” The Washington Post, December 26, 2002
- Risen, James & Eric Lichtblau. “Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts,” The New York Times, December 16, 2005
- Toobin, Jeffrey. “Camp Justice,” The New Yorker, April 14, 2008
- Foreign Policy, Intelligence & Security
- Albright, Madeline. “Bridges, Bombs, or Bluster,” Foreign Affairs, September/October, 2003
- Brill, Steven. “Is America Any Safer?” The Atlantic, September 2016
- Cole, Juan. “Think Again: 9/11,” Foreign Policy, October 15, 2009
- Gladwell, Malcolm. “Safety In the Skies,” The New Yorker, Oct. 1, 2001
- Hersh, Seymour. “Missed Messages,” The New Yorker, June 3, 2002
- Lemann, Nicholas. “The Next World Order,” The New Yorker, April 1, 2002
- Richburg, Keith. “After 9/11, Global Solidarity Short-Lived,” The Washington Post, September 6, 2011
- “What Impact Did 9/11 Have On the World?” The Guardian, September 5, 2011
- Zakaria, Fareed. “Our Way,” The New Yorker, October 14, 2002
- Osama Bin Laden
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