September 11th: Comprehensive
9.11: Rise, Reconnect, and Remember
Discovery Education
News Archive
Video (27:00); Compilation of news coverage on the morning of September 11, 2001
9/11: The Days After
Video (each segment is approximately 15:00): Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI; History Channel uses homemade videos to tell the story of the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
Flashback 9/11: As It Happened (18:30); Fox News Channel footage of the events of 9/11
George W. Bush
George W. Bush 9/11 Interview: 10 Years Later
Video (each segment is approximately 15:00): Part I, Part II, Part III; National Geographic Channel presents a documentary that reveals exclusive, first-person insight into the former president's experience following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. In the most in-depth on-camera interview he has ever given on the subject, President Bush recalls what he was thinking and feeling and what drove the real-time, life-or-death decisions he faced in the first minutes, hours and days after the most lethal terrorist attacks ever on U.S. soil. Hear in unprecedented, intimate detail what he grappled with as both commander in chief, and as a man concerned for his family and fellow citizens. George W. Bush: The 9/11 Interview also takes viewers behind the scenes with extensive archival footage and exclusive materials directly from his library that open a new window into his personal experiences during that historic day that changed the face of America.
9/11 Memorial
Virtual Visit
Use Google Earth to explore the 9/11 Memorial within the context of the surrounding landscape of lower Manhattan
Miscellaneous: 9/11
Commemorative Songs
Links to several songs that commemorate 9/11
Teaching 9/11
Teaching 9/11
Resources from the National 9/11 Memorial, including webscasts, interactive timelines, teaching guides, and how to talk to children about 9/11
Teaching 9/11: Why? How?
New York Times article explains why it is important to teach about 9/11 and includes suggestions for how to do so
Constitution Day: Comprehensive
Celebrating Constitution Day
Utah Education Network lists numerous Constitution Day activities, websites, videos, and lesson plans, sorted by grade level
Veterans' Day: Comprehensive
From These Honored Dead: Memorial Day and Veterans Day in American History
Essay from Gilder Lehrman
Miscellaneous: Veterans' Day
Norah Jones' Veterans Tribute
Song (5:00); Norah Jones' "American Anthem" is a tribute to all veterans with historic photo montage
9.11: Rise, Reconnect, and Remember
Discovery Education
News Archive
Video (27:00); Compilation of news coverage on the morning of September 11, 2001
9/11: The Days After
Video (each segment is approximately 15:00): Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI; History Channel uses homemade videos to tell the story of the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
Flashback 9/11: As It Happened (18:30); Fox News Channel footage of the events of 9/11
George W. Bush
George W. Bush 9/11 Interview: 10 Years Later
Video (each segment is approximately 15:00): Part I, Part II, Part III; National Geographic Channel presents a documentary that reveals exclusive, first-person insight into the former president's experience following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. In the most in-depth on-camera interview he has ever given on the subject, President Bush recalls what he was thinking and feeling and what drove the real-time, life-or-death decisions he faced in the first minutes, hours and days after the most lethal terrorist attacks ever on U.S. soil. Hear in unprecedented, intimate detail what he grappled with as both commander in chief, and as a man concerned for his family and fellow citizens. George W. Bush: The 9/11 Interview also takes viewers behind the scenes with extensive archival footage and exclusive materials directly from his library that open a new window into his personal experiences during that historic day that changed the face of America.
9/11 Memorial
Virtual Visit
Use Google Earth to explore the 9/11 Memorial within the context of the surrounding landscape of lower Manhattan
Miscellaneous: 9/11
Commemorative Songs
Links to several songs that commemorate 9/11
Teaching 9/11
Teaching 9/11
Resources from the National 9/11 Memorial, including webscasts, interactive timelines, teaching guides, and how to talk to children about 9/11
Teaching 9/11: Why? How?
New York Times article explains why it is important to teach about 9/11 and includes suggestions for how to do so
Constitution Day: Comprehensive
Celebrating Constitution Day
Utah Education Network lists numerous Constitution Day activities, websites, videos, and lesson plans, sorted by grade level
Veterans' Day: Comprehensive
From These Honored Dead: Memorial Day and Veterans Day in American History
Essay from Gilder Lehrman
Miscellaneous: Veterans' Day
Norah Jones' Veterans Tribute
Song (5:00); Norah Jones' "American Anthem" is a tribute to all veterans with historic photo montage
