9/11 Education Materials

The continuing impact of the attacks of September 11, 2001 on the United States and the global community will be explored through this webcast series. Investigations into and conversations about the events of 9/11 open up important questions about values, security, culture, and politics. This series was produced exclusively for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum and is hosted by Clifford Chanin, Senior Program Advisor at the Memorial Museum. Guides for teaching and learning accompany every webcast interview. Please click here to view the series of webcast interviews available.

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   Brigitte Sion is an assistant professor of religious studies at New York University.  A writer, editor, and translator, Sion has studied memorials and the performance of memory. Please click here to view the webcast interview.  These materials are presented by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.  Please visit their website for additional information and resources.

Nilufer Gole is a Professor of Sociology and Director of Studies at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Paris. Gole discusses Islam and modernization in Turkey and the challenges Turkey faces in balancing the religious and the secular. Please click here to view the webcast interview.  These materials are presented by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.  Please visit  their website for additional information and resources.

    Bruce Lawrence discusses the life and the messages of Osama bin Laden.  Lawrence is Professor of Religion and Director of the Islamic Study Center at Duke University, and editor of Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden. Please click here to view the webcast interview.  These materials are presented by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.  Please visit their website for additional information and resources.

Edward Berenson is a professor of History and Director of the Institute of French Studies at New York University (NYU). He also co-directs a French-American research center at NYU in partnership with the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), and is a partner on a three-year study with the National September 11 Memorial & Museum researching memory and memorialization. He has edited or written seven books (two in print) on British, French, and American political and cultural history in the 19th and 20th centuries.  Please click here to view the webcast interview.  These materials are presented by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.  Please visit their website for additional information and resources.

This is Unit 7 from the September 11th Personal Stories of Transformation toolkit. Tsugio Ito lost his brother in the bombing of Hiroshima and his son on 9/11 at the World Trade Center. Masahiro Sasaki donated one of the origami cranes folded in 1955 by his sister, the legendary Sadako, to the Tribute WTC Visitor Center as a wish for global peace. The full classroom resource kit contains 8 videos. Each story is accompanied by discussion questions that guide students to connect outcomes of the historic events of September 11th to the choices they make in their own lives. These materials are provided courtesy of The Tribute WTC Visitor Center. These classroom resources provide historic context, research links, and community service projects for each story.

Please click here to access the online version of the toolkit and choose Unit 7 from the "Story Selection" menu which includes Susan's video.  Please visit their website for additional information and resources.

The lessons in this teaching guide from the National September 11 Memorial & Museum are meant to help students understand how historical records and authoritative history are written, and how they are formed from the careful and balanced combination of documentary accounts from many and varied primary sources; and that many perspectives come together to shape historical records. Please visit their website for additional information.