U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor reflects on the impact of the 9/11 attacks on American society from her unique vantagepoint as a native New Yorker who watched as her city and neighborhood were devastated, and then witnessed the city rebuild.
Former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff discusses his experience reporting on 9/11 and the process of writing Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11, which drew inspiration from the 9/11 Memorial Museum’s collection and from his interviews with survivors and victims’ families.
Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO R. Nicholas Burns and former Deputy Secretary General of NATO Alexander Vershbow discuss the current state of NATO.
Former Yankees player Bernie Williams discusses the series, recounts President Bush’s famous first pitch, and reflects on what it meant for the Yankees to become “America’s Team.”
Emmy Award–winning documentarian Deeyah Khan has long explored how people are drawn to extremist ideologies.
Remnants of the original World Trade Center are embedded throughout the 9/11 Memorial Museum. This is seen most visibly in the Slurry Wall, a retaining wall built in the late 1960s to hold back the waters of the Hudson River.
New York Times foreign correspondent Rukmini Callimachi and Lorenzo Vidino, director of the George Washington University Program on Extremism, discuss “The ISIS Files,” a collection of 15,000 pages of documents left behind by ISIS in Iraq, and how these documents have shaped our understanding of the terrorist group.
This program was presented in partnership with the George Washington University Program on Extremism.
Former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano discusses her new book, How Safe Are We?: Homeland Security Since 9/11, and offers insights into the department.
After the election of a new president, Congress appoints a bipartisan commission to examine the nation’s defense strategy and military readiness. The most recent review found that the security of the United States is at risk in profound ways, for reasons both external and internal.
In her book How We Win, Farah Pandith makes the case that we have the resources and expertise but need a better strategy to stop the spread of extremism into local communities.