On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers crashed two commercial airliners into New York City’s World Trade Center towers, and the impact resonated around the world. Nine years later, Baker Institute history fellow Douglas Brinkley recounts how Americans and the administration of George W. Bush responded to the attack in the difficult days and weeks that followed.
Download Brinkley’s paper, “The Tragedy of September 11, 2001: A Historian’s Reflection on the Ninth Anniversary of the Attack,” (PDF) from the Baker Institute website (broken link fixed).