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Section 4: Texts

Core

  • Unit Reader
    • “Points of Impact,” excerpt from Americana: Dispatches from the New Frontier, Hampton Sides, Anchor Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2004
  • Digital Access
    • “9/11 Timeline: The Attacks on the World Trade Center,” The History Channel, The History Channel, 2011
    • “New Yorkers Remember 9/11, Fifteen Years Later,” The History Channel, The History Channel, 2016
    • “Too Young to Remember: How Kids Comprehend 9/11,” NBC News, NBC News, 2016

Optional

  • Digital Access
    • “First Response (Full Episode) — 9/11: One Day in America,” Dan Lindsay, T.J. Martin, and David Glover, National Geographic, 2022
    • “History with a Novelist’s Touch: Writing Narrative Nonfiction,” Hampton Sides and others, C-SPAN, 2015
    • “Remembering Tom Wolfe, American Writer with an ‘Anthropologist’s Delight’,” PBS NewsHour, Public Broadcasting Service, 2018
    • “Seven Documentaries Worth Watching about 9/11,” James M. Lindsay and Anna Shortridge, Council on Foreign Relations, 2021
    • “The Angels” from The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe, Macmillan, 1979
    • “The Birdman Drops In,” Hampton Sides, Outside, 2002
    • “Tom Wolfe: The 60 Minutes Interview with Morley Safer,” 60 Minutes, 60 Minutes, 1998