September 11 Events and Aftermath


These web sites provide news and background information about the September 11 attacks and the U.S. war on terrorism to help us all put these events into context as they unfold. The selection of related books is available in the collection of Hawthorne-Longfellow Library.

Findlaw
http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/us/terrorism/
A good place to read current news, related official U.S. documents, links to newspapers, and articles from legal commentators.
Attack on America
http://www.bcr.org/~Emsauers/wtc.html
Multiple links to sources of information on the September 11 terrorist attacks: newspapers, television, survivors sites, graphics, etc.
The Social Science Research Council : Perspectives from the Social Sciences
http://www.ssrc.org/sept11/index.htm
"This website features an extraordinary and still-expanding collection of essays by leading social scientists from around the country and the world. These are efforts by social scientists to bring theoretical and empirical knowledge to bear on the events of Sept. 11, their precursors, and what comes after. "
America's War against Terror
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/usterror.html
Comprehensive list of official and scholarly web sites on all aspects of the war on terrorism: links to relevant U.S. agencies and documents, background on Islamic countries, previous incidents of terrorism, counterterrorism measures, civilian response, bioterrorism, etc. From the University of Michigan.
Chemical Weapons -- MEDLINEplus
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/chemicalweapons.html
Authoritative links to news stories, background, specific conditions, and organizations dealing with biological and chemical weapons. From Medlineplus at the National Institute of Health.
The September 11th Source Books: National Security Archive Online Readers on Terrorism, Intelligence and the Next War
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB55/index1.html
Presents official U.S. primary documents on terrorism in pdf format in five sections: Congressional Research Reports, Dept of Defense directives, Presidential Executive Orders, GAO reports, and a section of various U.S. agency reports on Osama bin Laden.
Special Briefing: The Terrorist Attack on America: Background --Foreign Affairs
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/home/terrorism.asp
Ten full text articles from the journal Foreign Affairs that "contribute to an understanding of the tragic attacks on New York and Washington."
Islamic Studies, Islam, Arabic, and Religion
http://www.arches.uga.edu/~godlas/
Fine collection of links to scholarly articles and news in Islamic Studies selected by Dr. Alan Godlas of the University of Georgia.
Days after September 11, 2001
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/News/daysafter.html
Seven essays written from various perspectives and reflecting on the attacks, posted by the University of Chicago Press.
September 11th News
http://www.september11news.com/
International and U.S.A. News from September 11th 2001 and the next 111 days of 2001

Selected additional resources in the library collection:

AUTHOR: Kertész, André.
TITLE:Of New York ... edited by Nicholas Ducrot.
IMPRINT: New York: Knopf, 1976.
CALL #: F128.37 .K47 1976.
AUTHOR: Bailey, Vernon Howe, 1874-1953.
TITLE: Magical city; intimate sketches of New York; pictures by Vernon Howe Bailey; notes by Arthur Bartlett Maurice.
IMPRINT: New York, London, C. Scribner's sons, 1935.
CALL #:F128.5 .B25.
AUTHOR: Magnus, Ralph H.
TITLE: Afghanistan : mullah, Marx, and mujahid / Ralph H. Magnus,Eden Naby.
IMPRINT: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1998.
CALL #: DS371.2 .M28 1998.
TITLE: Fundamentalism reborn? : Afghanistan and the Taliban /edited by William Maley.
IMPRINT: New York : New York University Press, 1998.
CALL #: DS371.3 .F86 1998.
AUTHOR: Mernissi, Fatima.
TITLE:Islam and democracy : fear of the modern world / Fatima Mernissi ; translated by Mary Jo Lakeland.
IMPRINT: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., [1992]
CALL #: BP163 .M47 1992.
AUTHOR: Hareven, Shulamith.
TITLE: The vocabulary of peace : life, culture, and politics in the Middle East / Shulamith Hareven.
IMPRINT: San Francisco : Mercury House, c1995.
CALL #: DS119.7 .H3625 1995.
AUTHOR: Miller, Judith, 1948-
TITLE: God has ninety-nine names : reporting from a militant Middle East / Judith Miller.
IMPRINT: New York : Simon & Schuster, c1996.
CALL #:BP63.A4 M53625 1996.
AUTHOR: Morris, Benny, 1948-
TITLE: Righteous victims : a history of the Zionist-Arab conflict, 1881-1999 / Benny Morris.
IMPRINT: New York : Knopf, 1999.
CALL #: DS119.7 .M657 1999.
AUTHOR: Victor, Barbara.
TITLE: A voice of reason : Hanan Ashrawi and peace in the Middle East / Barbara Victor.
IMPRINT: San Diego : Harcourt Brace & Co., c1994.
CALL #: DS119.7.A6894 V5 1994.
AUTHOR: Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-
TITLE: Beyond belief : Islamic excursions among the converted peoples / V.S. Naipaul.
IMPRINT New York : Random House, c1998.
CALL # BP63.A1 N35 1998.
AUTHOR: Netanyahu, Binyamin.
TITLE: Fighting terrorism : how democracies can defeat domestic and international terrorists / Benjamin Netanyahu.
IMPRINT: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1995.
CALL #: HV6431 .N48 1995.
AUTHOR: Huband, Mark.
TITLE: Warriors of the Prophet : the struggle for Islam / Mark Huband.
IMPRINT: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1998.
CALL#: BP60 .H8 1998.
AUTHOR: Armstrong, Karen, 1944-
TITLE: Islam : a short history / Karen Armstrong.
IMPRINT: New York : Modern Library, 2000.
CALL #: BP50 .A69 2000.
AUTHOR: Kepel, Gilles.
TITLE: The revenge of God : the resurgence of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism in the modern world / Gilles Kepel ; translated by Alan Braley.
IMPRINT: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994.
CALL #: BL238 .K4613 1994.
AUTHOR: Davidson, Lawrence, 1945-
TITLE: Islamic fundamentalism / Lawrence Davidson.
IMPRINT: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c1998.
CALL #: BP60 .D38 1998.
TITLE: Contemporary debates in Islam : an anthology of modernist and fundamentalist thought
Edited by Mansoor Moaddel and Kamran Talattof.
IMPRINT: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
CALL #: BP163 .C64 2000.
AUTHOR: Friedman, Thomas L.
TITLE: From Beirut to Jerusalem / Thomas L. Friedman.
IMPRINT: New York : Anchor Books, 1990, c1989.
CALL #: DS119.7 .F736 1990.
TITLE: Terrorism in the United States
Edited by Frank McGuckin. IMPRINT: New York : H.W. Wilson Co., 1997.
CALL #:HV6432 .T45 1997.
AUTHOR: Lessing, Doris May, 1919-
TITLE: The wind blows away our words : and other documents relating to the Afghan resistance / Doris Lessing.
IMPRINT: New York : Vintage Books, 1987.
CALL #: DS371.2 .L47 1987.
AUTHOR: Rubin, Barnett R.
TITLE: The fragmentation of Afghanistan : state formation and collapse in the international system / Barnett R. Rubin.
IMPRINT: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1995.
CALL #: DS371.2 .R8 1995.
AUTHOR: Lawrence, Bruce B.
TITLE: Shattering the myth : Islam beyond violence / Bruce B. Lawrence.
IMPRINT: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1998.
CALL #: BP163 .L34 1998.
TITLE: The many faces of Islam : perspectives on a resurgent civilization
Nissim Rejwan [editor]
IMPRINT: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2000.
CALL #: BP163 .M363 2000.
AUTHOR: Salvatore, Armando.
TITLE: Islam and the political discourse of modernity / Armando Salvatore.
IMPRINT: Reading, UK : Ithaca Press, 1999.
CALL #: BP173.7 .S35 1999.
AUTHOR: Choudhury, Masudul Alam, 1948-
TITLE: Reforming the Muslim world / Masudul Alam Choudhury.
IMPRINT: London ; New York : Kegan Paul International, 1998.
CALL #: BP163 .C49 1998.
AUTHOR: Cline, Ray S.
TITLE: Terrorism as state-sponsored covert warfare / by Ray S. Cline and Yonah Alexander.
IMPRINT: Fairfax, VA : Hero Books, c1986.
CALL #: HV6431 .C55 1986.
AUTHOR: Adams, James, 1951-
TITLE: The financing of terror : behind the PLO, IRA, Red Brigades, and M-19 stand the paymasters : how the groups that are terrorizing the world get the money to do it / James Adams.
IMPRINT: New York : Simon and Schuster, c1986.
CALL #:HV6431 .A33 1986.
AUTHOR: Sivan, Emmanuel.
TITLE: Radical Islam : medieval theology and modern politics / Emmanuel Sivan.
IMPRINT: New Haven : Yale University Press, c1985.
CALL #: BP163 .S63 1985.
AUTHOR: Siddiqi, Aslam.
TITLE: Modernization menaces Muslims / Aslam Siddiqi.
IMPRINT: Lahore : Sh. Muhammad Ashraf, 1974.
CALL #: BP163 .S565.
AUTHOR: Lawrence, Bruce B.
TITLE: Defenders of God : the fundamentalist revolt against the modern age / Bruce B. Lawrence.
IMPRINT: San Francisco : Harper & Row, c1989.
CALL #: BL238 .L38 1989.
AUTHOR: Mayer, Grace M.
TITLE: Once upon a city; New York from 1890 to 1910 as photographed by Byron and described by Grace M. Mayer. With a foreword by Edward Steichen.
IMPRINT: New York, Macmillan, 1958.
CALL #: F128.37 .M3.
AUTHOR: Friedman, Thomas L.
TITLE: From Beirut to Jerusalem / Thomas L. Friedman.
IMPRINT:New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1989.
CALL #: DS119.7 .F736 1989.
AUTHOR: Tibi, Bassam.
TITLE: The crisis of modern Islam : a preindustrial culture in the scientific-technological age / by Bassam Tibi ;translated by Judith von Sivers ; foreword by Peter von Sivers.
IMPRINT: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, 1988.
CALL #: BP163 .T5313 1988.
AUTHOR: Armstrong, Karen, 1944-
TITLE: The battle for God / Karen Armstrong.
IMPRINT: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
CALL #: BL238 .A76 2000.
AUTHOR: Laqueur, Walter
TITLE: The Age of Terrorism
IMPRINT: Boston: Little, Brown, c 1987
CALL #: HV6431.L36 1987
AUTHOR: Chasdi, Richard
TITLE: Serenade of Suffering: A Portrait of Middle East Terrorism, 1968-1993
IMPRINT: Lanham, Md : Lexington Books, c 1999
CALL #: HV6433.M5 1999
AUTHOR: Lewis, Bernard
TITLE: Islam and the West
IMPRINT: New York : Oxford University Press 1993
CALL #:DS63.2.E8L47 1993
AUTHOR: Esposito, John L
TITLE: Islam: the straight path
IMPRINT: New York: Oxford University Press - three editions- 1988, 1991, 1998
CALL #:BP161.2.E85 1988, BP161.2.E85 1991, on order for Alcove
AUTHOR:> Mahdi, Muhsin
TITLE: Alfarabi and the foundation of Islamic political philosophy IMPRINT: Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2001
CALL #: B753.F34 M33 2001
AUTHOR: Singular, Stephen
TITLE:The uncivil war: the rise of hate, violence, and terrorism in America
IMPRINT: Beverly Hills, CA: New Millennium Press 2001
CALL #: HN90.V5 S48 2001
AUTHOR: Gohari, MJ
TITLE: The Taliban: ascent to power
IMPRINT: Karachi; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000
CALL #:DS371.2.G64 2000
AUTHOR: Newby, Eric
TITLE: A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
IMPRINT: New York: Penguin, 1981, c 1958
CALL #:DS374.H5 N47
AUTHOR: Armstrong, Karen
TITLE: Jerusalem: one city three faiths
IMPRINT: New York: AA Knopf,1996
CALL #:DS109.9.A76 1996
AUTHOR: Juergensmeyer, Mark
TITLE: Terror in the mind of God: the global rise of religious violence IMPRINT: Berkeley: University of California Press 2000
CALL #: BL65.V55 J84 2000
AUTHOR: Hadar, Leon
TITLE: Quagmire: America in the middle east
IMPRINT: Washington DC : Cato Institute 1992
CALL #: DS63.2.U5 H34 1992
AUTHOR: edited by John Kelsay and James Turner Johnson
TITLE: Just war and jihad: historical and theoretical perspectives on war and peace in western and Islamic traditions
IMPRINT: New York: Greenwood Press 1991
CALL #: BT736.2.J87 1991
AUTHOR: Cook, M A
TITLE: Muhammad
IMPRINT: Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1983
CALL #: BP75.C66 1983
AUTHOR: Esposito, John L
TITLE: Voices of resurgent Islam
IMPRINT: New York: Oxford University Press
CALL #: PF60.E86 1983
AUTHOR: Alibek, Ken
TITLE: Biohazard: the chilling true story of the largest covert biological weapons program in the world, told from the inside by the man who ran it
IMPRINT: New York: Random House 1999
CALL #: UG447.8.A45 1999
AUTHOR: edited by Moonis Ahmar
TITLE: The Arab-Israeli peace process: lessons for India and Pakistan IMPRINT: Karachi; New York: Oxford University Press 2001
CALL #:DS119.76.A73 2001
AUTHOR: Laremont, Ricardo Rene
TITLE: Islam and the politics of resistance in Algeria, 1783-1992
IMPRINT: Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press 2000
CALL #: BP173.7.L37 2000
AUTHOR: edited by James P Piscatori
TITLE: Islam in the political process
IMPRINT: London: Royal Institute of International Affairs; Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983
CALL #: BP173.7.I85 1983
AUTHOR: Bulliet, Richard W
TITLE: Islam: the view from the edge
IMPRINT: New York: Columbia University Press, 1994
CALL #: BP52.B85 1994
AUTHOR: Rejwan, Nissim
TITLE: Arabs face the modern world: religious, cultural, and political responses to the west
IMPRINT: Gainesville: University Press of Florida 1998
CALL #: DS36.82.R45 1998
AUTHOR: `In-ayat, Ham-id (Enayat, Hamid)
TITLE: Modern Islamic political thought
IMPRINT: Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982
CALL #: JA84.I78 I5 1982
AUTHOR: Mijad, Anouar
TITLE: Unveiling traditions: postcolonial Islam in a polycentric world IMPRINT: Durham, NC: Duke University Press 2000
CALL #: BP163.M342 2000

Last Updated: November, 2002.