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9/11

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  • 9-11 Museum Agreement (9-11-12)
  • For Some, Moving On From 9/11 Means Scaling Back (9-10-12)
  • Ex-US professor Churchill loses appeal to regain university job; compared 9-11 victims to Nazi (9-10-12)
  • Dispute Over Costs Delays Opening of 9/11 Museum (9-8-12)
  • New 9/11 Programs Are a British Task (9-6-12)
  • September 11 Survivor and Historians To Be Among Those at MCCC Memorial (9-5-12)
  • 9/11 museum offers guide to aid commemorations (8-27-12)
  • Bin Laden Dead, U.S. Official Says (5-1-11)

    • Links

  • Teaching About 9/11
  • HNN Poll: Has 9/11 Changed the Way You Look at History?
  • HNN Hot Topics: Terrorism
  • 9/11: Insights Offered by the OAH's Journal of American History


    • Articles & Excerpts

  • Jim Loewen: Taking 9/11/2001 Seriously on 9/11/2011 (9-13-11)
  • Mary L. Dudziak: Did 9/11 Really Change Everything? (9-6-11)
  • Tom Engelhardt: Let’s Cancel 9/11 and Bury the War State's Blank Check at Sea (9-8-11)
  • Jonathan Zimmerman: For Teachers, No Freedom to Teach about 9/11 (9-8-11)

  • For 2010, a political 9/11 (9-9-10)
  • Mary L. Dudziak: September 11 and the meaning of America (9-11-09)
  • Tom Engelhardt: 9/11's Living Monuments (9-10-09)
  • Rebecca Solnit: How 9/11 Should Be Remembered (9-10-09)

  • Jonathan Dresner: That 9-11 Incident (9-11-06)
  • James Castagnera: 9-11 and the search for meaning (9-16-06)
  • Scott A. Sandage: Sorting the War Dead into Winners and Losers (9-10-06)
  • Jonathan Zimmerman: On 9/11, keep war politics out of the classroom (9-7-06)

  • William Marina: Another 9/11 ... Stimson, the Bomb, Bush, and Iran (9-9-06)
  • Richard Brookhiser: What Would the Founders Do About Terrorism? (9-10-06)
  • Godfrey Hodgson: We'd Be Better Off If Our Foreign Policy Was Less Woodrow Wilson and More Colonel House (9-9-06)
  • Ruth Rosen: Oliver Stone, 9/11, and the Big Lie (9-9-06)

  • Margaret C. Jacob: Thoughts on the Impossibility of Being both Deeply Religious and Cosmopolitan (9-9-06)
  • Mark Kingwell: The Empire State Building's New Meaning Since 9/11 (9-9-06)
  • Interview with Timothy R. Furnish (9-9-06)
  • James Castagnera: Osama bin Laden Is Our Sci-Fi Nightmare (8-14-06)

  • A.O. Scott: Pinned Under the Weight of Skyscrapers and History in World Trade Center (8-9-06)
  • Brian M. Carney: The conspiracy-minded Oliver Stone curiously couldn't find a conspiracy in 9/11 even though there was one (8-5-06)
  • Evan Thomas and Andrew Romano: How American Myths (like 9-11) Are Made (8-7-06)
  • Arundhati Roy: Come September [video]