Funded by a major grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and organized by the American Social History Project at the City University of New York Graduate Center and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, the September 11 Digital Archive is a project that uses electronic media to "collect, preserve, and present the history of the September 11, 2001 attack in New York,...

On September 21, the National Security Archive (NSA) posted the first volume in their new series The September 11th Source Books. The series aims to fulfill NSA's mission "to put on the record the primary source documentation that can enrich the policy debate, improve journalism, educate policymakers, and ensure that we don't reinvent the wheel or repeat the mistakes of the past." As such, this...

The events of September 11, 2001 are still very fresh in the minds of many persons across the United States and much of the world. It is not surprising, therefore, that the Library of Congress has designed this online exhibition (in conjunction with an _in situ_ exhibition in Washington, D.C.) for the general public to peruse some of the many items related to the events of that day. Included are...

On the morning of September 11, 2001 two commercial airlines were steered into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center in a coordinated terrorist attack. Within two hours, both towers collapsed. They fell straight down, in a matter of 15 to 20 seconds, sparking a wave of speculation by conspiracy theorists, who were convinced the buildings must have been systematically bombed. Not so,...