Sep 09 This church was destroyed on 9/11. Now it’s reopening as a shrine to victims By Dan Cooney Two decades after it was destroyed on 9/11, St. Nicholas is embarking on a resurrection of sorts. Continue reading
Sep 09 An untold story of escape from the Pentagon on 9/11 By Thomas J. Brennan, The War Horse Bobby Hogue woke up on his office floor covered in jet fuel. Thick black smoke consumed the room, dancing in a searing amber glow. Hogue’s head and ears pounded. His body throbbed with pain. As he pulled himself to his… Continue reading
Sep 09 Ground Zero rebuilding still continues in New York, 20 years after 9/11 By Karen Matthews, Associated Press Two decades after its destruction in the Sept. 11 attacks, the work to rebuild the World Trade Center complex remains incomplete. Continue reading
Sep 08 Watch 8:39 Remembering the 40 heroes aboard Flight 93 and how they thwarted 9/11 hijackers By PBS NewsHour Since 2001, a great deal of attention has been paid to the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon. But less so for Flight 93. The U.S. Capitol was the likely target of where hijackers had… Continue watching
Sep 08 Watch 2:32 How 9/11 weighs heavy on the generation born after the 2001 attacks PBS NewsHour's Student Reporting Labs network of high school journalism programs across the country gathered the reflections of teenagers to explore the legacy of 9/11 on their generation. They present the voices of young Americans who were born after Sept. Continue watching
Sep 07 Watch 8:45 Middletown lost the most residents on 9/11 after NYC. Here’s how the community is healing By Ali Rogin Ali Rogin returns to Middletown, a New Jersey town where she grew up that was disproportionately affected by the 9/11 attacks in 2001, to see how residents and neighbors coped over the past two decades. Continue watching
Sep 07 Watch 6:03 The ‘direct line’ between national unity after 9/11 and partisan polarization in 2021 It has been two decades since Sept. 11,2001 and we are still learning how the terror attacks shaped our politics, military and sense of national unity. Garrett Graff is the author of the book "The Only Plane in the Sky:… Continue watching
Sep 07 WATCH: 20 years on, Muslim journalists reflect on reporting in a post-9/11 world By Dorothy Hastings It has been 20 years since Sept. 11, 2001. The events, which shook the nation, also had reverberating effects on Muslims living in the U.S. Analyses show that anti-Muslim hate grew in the U.S. following the attacks. Continue reading
Sep 07 Americans warier of U.S. government surveillance, AP-NORC poll finds By Eric Tucker, Hannah Fingerhut, Associated Press As the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks approaches, Americans increasingly balk at intrusive government surveillance in the name of national security - and only about a third believe that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were… Continue reading
Sep 06 Watch 10:57 American Muslims remember how 9/11 changed America as they knew it This week, the PBS NewsHour is marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with stories examining some of the ways that day transformed the nation and the world. Amna Nawaz begins our coverage with a look at the effect… Continue watching