Nation Sep 10 Watch 11:18 How the attacks of 9/11 reshaped America’s role in the world This week PBS NewsHour has been marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by exploring how they have impacted the U.S. at home and abroad. Judy Woodruff leads our latest conversation on the ways the 9/11 attacks shaped American…
Nation Sep 10 Watch 6:57 Smithsonian Institution pieces together 9/11 history through personal, poignant relics With memories of Sept. 11, 2001 fading for some, and images of that day unknown to a younger generation, the Smithsonian Institution is working at piecing together history object by object. William Brangham takes a behind-the-scenes look as part of… By William Brangham, Anne Azzi Davenport
Nation Sep 09 Watch 9:00 New York’s 9/11 first responders are battling a new kind of mass trauma For our endeavor to mark the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, John Yang spoke to first responders and medical workers who have lived and worked through both the attacks and have also more recently seen the mass trauma… By John Yang, Leah Nagy
Nation Sep 09 Watch 8:42 Flight 77 crashed just below Robert Hogue’s Pentagon office. Here’s his story PBS NewsHour's broadcast studio is just a few miles from the Pentagon here in Washington. On 9/11, that iconic structure designed to project American military might was struck clear out of the blue, just like the twin towers. 184 people…
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 12 Watch 8:43 18 years after September 11th, an oral history that recalls the details For everyone old enough to remember September 11th, 2001, their experience of that catastrophic day is seared into memory. But details of what the victims, survivors and emergency responders endured have faded from national consciousness over time. Now, a powerful… Continue watching