11 Journals

I'm doing two things today, both significant: I'm going shopping for a cocktail dress for a friend's wedding and afterwards, I'm going up to the New-York Historical Society to see . If it seems disrespectful to go shopping on a day like this, so be it. The thing about death is that life goes on around it, no matter how much we would like the world to stop and howl with us. I'm not saying that we should forget, but that we should let go and move on. It's starting to become like the widow who flings herself onto the coffin and won't let go. It was a shocking murder of over three thousand people, but no more shocking a murder than the more than half a million Iraqis who've died since the war started.

A Quick Note

This is a limited journal of the two weeks after the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. There are also follow-up entries from the anniversaries. More entries Avondjurken about life after 9-11 can be found at Spawn of Blogorrhea. For a longer, rawer version of this journal, you can e-mail me.

Al Qaeda's Fantasy Ideology

Article in Policy Review. One of the few explanations of the act that makes sense, at least to me.

From the Center for Cooperative Research. Extremely detailed and well-researched. With pictures.

David Friend: Watching the World Change

The blog for this extraordinary book.

Mr. Beller Neighborhood

Again, more than 9/11 stories, though those are definitely worth reading, as is the rest of the site.

Photo of Memorial Cranes

From the 2003 anniversary, Trouwjurken vloer-length avondjurken Met Kant courtesy Emily Hegarty.

Photo of WTC buildings

from Great Buildings dot com

Project Rebirth

Several still cams at various spots around the World Trade Center site, capturing the activity of rebuilding in a sometimes quite dramatic time-lapse progression.

September Eleven: A Resource Page

Cookie and pop-up free, menu driven, recently updated, and provides rare multimedia links and commentary. Thanks to: George Edw. Seymour

Teaching and Understanding Sept 11

A web-based publication with contributions are drawn from sociology, criminology, political science and anthropology. Includes syllabi, essays, pedagogy. Links to longer reading lists, photos, a newsblog, and other features. Thanks to Dr Paul Leighton

Thirteen Days

Jonathan Corum of photographs from the line of evacuation. Still stunning a year later. Followed up by 13 Weeks and 13 Months

Urban Legends Reference pages

Click on Rumors of War at the bottom to access the 9/11 pages. Reliable debunkers of rumor.

Views from Brooklyn

One of the first sites to pop up immediately after the disaster. These photos were taken with a cool eye and a view to documenting what was possible for a civilian to document.