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Sept. 9, 2011
For young people who have grown up in the shadow of the 9/11 attacks and an economic crisis, there's no shortage of questions about the future.
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Sept. 9, 2011
I watched the twin towers being built during my junior high and high school years, and watched as they gradually became an accepted part of the skyline. A decade ago, I stood in a newsroom shocked into silence as one, and then the other tower pancaked into massive clouds of dust.
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Sept. 9, 2011
This slideshow compares children's drawings of 9/11, done in 2001 following the attack and again in 2011 ten years later.
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Sept. 9, 2011
Why did the memorial and the larger reconstruction project at the former World Trade Center site take more than 10 years to complete? The answer, of course, lies in just how difficult it's been to strike the right balance between competing interests.
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Sept. 9, 2011
The terrorist attacks of 9/11 have wielded significant impacts on politics and war policy in the United States. -- but does that dialogue continue, 10 years later?
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Sept. 9, 2011
From 2002 to 2009, director Jim Whitaker and a film crew chronicled the lives of five people who were directly impacted by the attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11 for a new documentary, "Rebirth."
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Sept. 9, 2011
While the 9/11 attacks came as a bolt from the blue, they also made fear of terrorism part of the collective American consciousness.
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Sept. 9, 2011
The San Francisco Opera is presenting "Heart of a Soldier," based on James B. Stewart's book about 9/11 hero, Rick Rescorla.
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Sept. 9, 2011
On the morning of 9/11, I was in the House gallery broadcast booth readying for the day. It was a day much like any other. While driving in, I remembered remarking out loud what a crystal blue day it was.
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Sept. 9, 2011
This weekend, memorial ceremonies and tributes mark the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001. View a schedule of events.
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Sept. 9, 2011
On the night of September 11, 2001 and for the nights, months and years that followed, we did as most Americans did -- hung flags on our front porches, wept for the lost lives, said a prayer or two. But we also observed and investigated and absorbed the events of the day that would change the jobs we do.
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Sept. 8, 2011
Starting at 12:01 a.m. ET Friday, the PBS NewsHour's @NewsHourLive account will tweet nearly 3,000 names of the victims of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. The tweets will continue throughout the weekend, ending about 3 a.m. ET on Monday, Sept. 12.
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Sept. 8, 2011
What if a jury selected a design for the new 9/11 memorial and then discovered that its architect was a Muslim? A new novel, "The Submission," by Amy Waldman, explores that imagined scenario. Jeffrey Brown and the author discuss her debut novel.
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Sept. 8, 2011
Correspondent Tom Bearden reports on the profound changes in aviation security and air travel after the 9/11 attacks. Critics say some of the new measures are excessive and infringe on the rights of travelers, pointing to more invasive searches and examples of passengers being detained.
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Sept. 8, 2011
Correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reflects on covering the aftermath of 9/11 in New York, remembering peoples' tragic stories of loss and one thing she hasn't been able to shake: the smell.
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Sept. 8, 2011
For our "America Remembers 9/11" special program, we invited two poets -- Billy Collins and Nancy Mercado -- to each read a poem to mark the anniversary.
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Sept. 8, 2011
Photographer Joel Meyerowitz spent months at Ground Zero, amassing roughly 8,000 images of the destruction and the heroic recovery efforts.
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Sept. 8, 2011
After 9/11, Washington federalized airport security by creating the Transportation Security Administration and overhauled the screening process. Tom Bearden looks at a the rapid increase in security measures and the many ways air travel has changed for passengers.
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Sept. 8, 2011
In a special edition of our Around the Nation feature, we share some of this week's arts and culture stories about 9/11 from public broadcasting stations around the nation.
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Sept. 7, 2011
In an interview with Judy Woodruff, White House Chief Counterterrorism Adviser John Brennan discusses the strength of al-Qaida after the death or capture of high-level leaders and the difficult-to-detect threat of homegrown terror.
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Sept. 7, 2011
After 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security created the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative to help spot potential terrorists, while the Mall of America launched its own security program. NPR and the Center for Investigative Reporting report how such efforts aimed at security affect our civil liberties.
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Sept. 7, 2011
On Wednesday's broadcast, you'll see a report from NPR's Daniel Zwerdling and the Center for Investigative Reporting about efforts to spot terrorist activity at the Mall of America near Minneapolis.
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Sept. 7, 2011
In first days after 9/11, one photographer was allowed into Ground Zero in New York. Joel Meyerowitz spent months amassing roughly 8,000 images of the destruction and the heroic efforts at the site of the World Trade Center.
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Sept. 7, 2011
It may feel unseemly to ask if any nation benefited from 9/11, but it is becoming increasingly clear that China has emerged far stronger since the attacks on the United States a decade ago.
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Sept. 7, 2011
"This country now has become a much more difficult operational environment for al-Qaida and other terrorist groups," President Obama's chief counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, told the NewsHour's Judy Woodruff on Wednesday.
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Sept. 7, 2011
What if a jury selected a design for the new 9/11 memorial and then discovered that its architect was a Muslim? Ten years after the terrorist attack, the actual memorial is just about to open. But an alternative history is imagined in the new novel, "The Submission."
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Sept. 7, 2011
For Thomas Heidenberger, the emotional scars are still fresh. His wife, Michele, was a flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 77, which flew into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. Heidenberger discusses the meaning and design of the memorial at the Pentagon dedicated to the 184 people who were killed there 10 years ago.
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Sept. 7, 2011
Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, the memorial at the site of the World Trade Center towers in lower Manhattan will be dedicated on Sunday and open to the public on Sept. 12, 2011.
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Sept. 6, 2011
The collapse of the Twin Towers served as a stark and stunning reminder to architects and engineers of the value of using concrete to protect skyscrapers from the ravages of fire. Miles O'Brien reports on how the design of skyscrapers has changed since 9/11. This report was produced in collaboration with the PBS program "NOVA."
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Sept. 6, 2011
In the days that followed 9/11, musician and DJ Moby wrote about the experience of living just a mile from Ground Zero on his blog, which was one of the first by a musician at the time. It was an intimate and unique account, as well as one that got him into a little trouble and some bad press.
