Resources for 9/11 Research

Here are some resources to get you started on your research. 

 

Articles

• A GREAT place to start (especially if you’re not sure what your topic is yet!).  This covers most topics in a reflection 10 years after 9/11.  http://www.pbs.org/newshour/news/september11/

• Different writer’s opinions on the ways we’ve changed as a country after 9/11 http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/09/911-to-now-ways-we-have-changed.html

•  An article on WAR as a response to 9/11 and how this has impacted our society and military http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/a-decade-after-the-911-attacks-americans-live-in-an-era-of-endless-war/2011/09/01/gIQARUXD2J_story.html

• Primary sources http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2011/09/teaching-about-september-11-using-primary-sources-from-library-of-congress/ (also an idea to compare 9/11 with Pearl Harbor)

• Primary sources http://eiu.edu/eiutps/911.php

Graphics

• Graphics of changes made after 9/11 to military budgets, Google Maps, and other parts of American life http://www.pbs.org/newshour/multimedia/911-change/index.html

Stories and Narratives

• “Shouting Across the Divide” from This American Life—a story of a Muslim-American student whose teacher gives an inappropriate lesson about 9/11 and the effects this has on her and her family http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/322/shouting-across-the-divide 
• If you’d like to read along to the story (this will contain some typos—FYI) http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/322/transcript

•  A collection of stories and opinions about life after 9/11 being different (and not so different) http://understandingamerica.publicradio.org/

• A teenager describes how she feels differently after 9/11 in her life (especially how she sees Muslims) http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/speakout/us/july-dec11/9-11voiceAllegra.html

Plans for specific topics:

AIRPORT SECURITY (How has it changed?  Is it working?  Is it ethical?)

• Resources describing the trade-off between airport security and civil liberties (includes links to videos and articles) http://www.911memorial.org/sites/all/files/HI_Security%20vs%20Civil%20Liberties_1.pdf

• Article on dignity vs. security at airports: http://www.worldhum.com/print/item/features/post-9-11-airport-security-do-you-know-where-your-dignity-is-20090910/

• Article describing what a journalist was able to smuggle through security, questioning if the money we spend to increase security after 9/11 at airports is really working http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/11/the-things-he-carried/307057/

·          How to Teach 9/11

• This is a good place to start and includes some thoughts from psychologists http://www.911memorial.org/talk-children-about-911