...Jim O'Brien How to interpret and understand the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, has been a recurrent theme of politics in the United States during the past decade. At the outset, the administration of George W. Bush framed the attacks in a way that has had lasting influence. In this view, the...

...Margaret Power In this annotated interview Lolita Lebrón explains that the racism she experienced as a factory worker in New York City led her to join the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. She also discusses her position as the leader of the 1954 attack on the US Congress, the attack itself, gender...

...James Stone Cloverfield (dir. Matt Reeves, 2008), a Hollywood movie about a giant, reptilian monster attacking New York City, includes many moments reminiscent of the iconic video footage captured on 9/11. The film presents these scenes of destruction as thrilling spectacle and, in so doing...

...R. Ben Brown The campaign to close the open range in the late nineteenth-century South raises questions about the essential nature of Southern legal, political, and social organizations. Some historians have argued that the attack on the range formed part of a coordinated attempt to destroy...

... to an ad hoc refugee camp to an institutionalized immigration detention center, or more precisely a jail. This site's transformation underscores a Cold War shift from fear of a Caribbean-based nuclear attack to fear of an invasion of undocumented and undesirable Caribbean migrants. In addition, this...

... numerous attacks on Koreans and other ethnic minorities in Japan. The result is that a new nationalist and xenophobic movement, generally referred to as the Action Conservative Movement, has emerged in Japan. Based on participant observation and in-depth interviewing of the people involved with and...

..., Boston. The interview covered the Bush administration's response to the September 11, 2001, attacks and the dynamics of U.S. overseas interventionism, including military-civilian relations. “Civilian control has been deeply compromised,” Bacevich claims, “and the policies that have resulted have been...

...Micki McElya In Arlington National Cemetery on September 12, 2002, the defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld, presided over the burial with full military honors of a single casket containing unidentified remains intended to represent all 184 victims of the 9/11 Pentagon attack, a number that...

...Linda Levitt The family member coalition groups that formed in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks have provided more than support and community; their vocal public statements play a significant role in shaping the landscape at the World Trade Center site. In the immediate aftermath, those...

...Stephen Brier; Joshua Brown This article focuses on the creation and subsequent development of the September 11 Digital Archive ( www.911digitalarchive.org ), currently one of the largest digital repositories of historical materials on the September 11 attacks. The article reflects on archival and...

... people who came to be known in popular discourse as “the jumpers,” and their images quickly disappeared from the enormous photographic vocabulary henceforth used to describe and understand the attacks. In what was likely the most photographed disaster in history, images of people falling through the air...

...–related themes, 9/11 and its aftermath resonated in a singular way within an industry and subculture that remains anchored in the five boroughs. The destruction and horror of the attack on downtown Manhattan affected many cartoonists personally, and in a few cases inspired their best work. The events...

...Sonia Baelo-Allué The 9/11 terrorist attack on the United States has become one of the most represented disasters in history since it produced an unprecedented visual impact on those around the world who watched the second plane crash into the South Tower live on television. In an atmosphere in...

... system killing fifty-two people and the four suicide bombers. This essay examines the British reaction to the 9/11 attacks, British and American reactions to the 7/7 bombings, and the relationship between the two. Both events and their reactions are analyzed comparatively to provide critical commentary...

...Jeffrey Melnick This pedagogical essay invites readers to consider how the work of cultural “first responders” to the 9/11 attacks—most notably David Rees, with his online comic Get Your War On —reached students at a small business college in the Northeast. Melnick is interested, above all, in...

... both a profound truth and a common cliché that the terrorist attacks of Sep- tember 11, 2001, had great historical impact, traumatizing masses of people in the United States and beyond. Astounding in their audacity and in their success, these attacks literally brought down two of the largest...

... the intervention of conscientious historians as guardians of memory (the future of the past) was required more than in the political aftermath of the spectacular attacks on the World Trade Center and other sites on the clear morning of September 11, 2001. Within hours of the terrorist...

... the September 11 attacks as a watershed moment in the history of the United States, of Islam, and of international relations. Authors do not dispute that the attacks affected existing social, political, and legal structures, but they do question that the...

...• ditions to his program would be welcomed. I believe this is hypocritical; the eclectic do-good approach to the job crisis is a disaster. There must be a clear political analysis of where the crisis is coming from before we can define modes of counter• attack. MARHO in particular could raise...

...Kim Phillips-Fein The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States . New York: Norton, 2004. MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2007 (RE)VIEWS The 9/11 Commission Report Kim Phillips-Fein The 9/11...