Students Study Impact of September 11
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More than 100 million Americans were born after 11 September 2001 and, for them, these terrorist attacks are historical and not their memory.
While almost a third of the US population was born after Al-Qaeda suicide attacks, the school's responsibility is immense to surpass collective memory and teach history without falling into the nationalist narrativeThe United States commemorates this Friday the twenty-five years of the largest terrorist attack of the twenty-first century, perpetrated by members of Al-Qaeda. The event caused the death of 2977 people in New York, highlighted the a…
Students study impact of September 11
The students sitting in classrooms today were born years after the attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Flight 93. That means much more of what they know about September 11 comes from school, family stories and images from that day. "I mean, I can't really place a time when I first learned [...]
If you were born after 2001, 9/11 is a date like many in the history book. Maybe you've heard about it at school, or you've seen it on TV.
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