9/11 Essay Series Abe Essay: Remembering and Forgetting Pearl Harbor after Sept. 11 in the Japanese Media 7 Dec 2021 In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Pearl Harbor metaphor suddenly, if not naturally, emerged in the United States. As it happens, the year 2001 was the…
9/11 Essay Series Wilson Essay: Scholastic media document 9/11 from student perspective 8 Nov 20218 Nov 2021 It wasn’t that long ago. I was teaching a workshop for high school journalism students somewhere around Texas. As I do with so many workshops, I asked the students some…
9/11 Essay Series Kilmer Essay: 9/11 – The Steel Crumbled, but the Friendship Narratives Endured 11 Oct 20219 Oct 2021 When everything we thought was solid crumbles, we retrieve from our hearts the stories that calm, heal, and empower us to hope for a better tomorrow. Twenty years ago, in…
9/11 Essay Series Burns Essay: Mediated Memories of 9/11 10 Sep 20218 Sep 2021 “Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?” Most of us who are old enough to remember the events of September 11, 2001, can easily answer…
9/11 Essay Series Reed Essay: ‘You’re not patriotic if you’re not wearing a mask’ 9 Aug 20217 Aug 2021 National news media reframes 9/11 survivors as immunosuppressed during COVID-19 pandemic When the World Trade Center towers in lower Manhattan fell on Sept. 11, 2001, “billions of razor-sharp shards of…
9/11 Essay Series Mascaro Essay: The Rapturous Embrace of Violence 26 Jul 202115 Jul 2021 FRONTLINE’s Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero Asks, “Where Was God on 9/11?” The FRONTLINE (PBS) documentary Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero is a gripping report on 9/11 and…
9/11 Essay Series Somerstein Essay: Photographic Coverage of 9/11 17 May 202115 May 2021 If I ask you to picture 9/11, one of a handful of photographs likely comes to your mind: a plane hitting the World Trade Center; people fleeing Lower Manhattan; firefighters…
9/11 Essay Series Ahearn Essay: Print’s Long 9/11 Afternoon 22 Apr 202118 Apr 2021 Last call for the newspaper “EXTRA!” edition At newspapers across the country, the decision to print 9/11 extra editions was as sudden as the moment bulletins switched from apparent air…
9/11 Essay Series Myers Essay: The Legal Legacy of 9/11 23 Mar 202121 Mar 2021 Challenges Writing the Legal History of the Recent Past Writing contemporary history presents unique challenges. In the time of the ancient historians, it was thought that there needed to be…
9/11 Essay Series Smith Essay: News Coverage of 9/11 in Arab-American Affairs 22 Feb 2021 This article seeks to converge two areas of existing scholarship: coverage of 9/11 in the mainstream media and the longstanding tradition of ethnic news outlets in the U.S. Specifically, I…
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