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9-11: Day of Infamy

PRIMARY SOURCES
DAY OF INFAMY William B. McKinley 9-11-01
Remember the Maine!

DAY OF INFAMY Theodore Roosevelt 9-18-01
Anarchism Needs to Be Stopped Dead in Its Tracks

DAY OF INFAMY Woodrow Wilson 9-11-01
Denunciation of Anarchists

DAY OF INFAMY Woodrow Wilson 9-11-01
Making the World Safe for Democracy

DAY OF INFAMYFranklin Roosevelt 9-11-01
Declaration of War

DAY OF INFAMY Bill Clinton 9-11-01
Comments on the Oklahoma City Bombing


ARTICLES



WEEK of Septmber 23, 2001


CULTURE WATCH Max Page 9-26-01
Unimaginable?

THE WAR David Corn 9-26-01
We Cannot Win a War on Terrorism

HISTORY OF TERRORISM Donald R. Shaffer 9-25-01
The Gruelling Campaign to Capture Pancho Villa

CULTURE WATCH Nikolas K. Gvosdev 9-25-01
An Investigation--NOW!

CULTURE WATCH Norman Markowitz 9-25-01
Is the Problem We Don't Know Who Our True Friends Are?

CULTURE WATCH Keith Miller 9-24-01
Letter to the OAH

THE WAR Stanley Kutler 9-24-01
Fanatics -- Theirs and Ours

THE WAR K.R. Constantine Gutzman 9-24-01
Look Before You Leap

THE WAR Jason Sokol 9-24-01
Why She Did It: Barbara Lee’s Vote Against War

HNN COLUMN P.M. Carpenter 9-24-01
Unintended Consequences

PRESIDENCY Larry Schweikart 9-24-01
His Finest Hour

HISTORY OF TERRORISM Nathan Williams 9-24-01
From the Halls of Montezuma, To the ...

CULTURE WATCH Knute Berger 9-24-01
Remains of the Day




WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 16, 2001


DAY OF INFAMY Robert Bray 9-17-01
That Patriotic and Awful Song: ”Battle Hymn of the Republic”

DAY OF INFAMY Stacy Haldi 9-17-01
Not a New Kind of War

DAY OF INFAMY Beverly Gage 9-17-01
The Last Time Wall Street Was Bombed

DAY OF INFAMY Henry Ryan 9-17-01
Soon We Will Have to Ask Why People Hate Us

DAY OF INFAMY Keith Edgerton 9-17-01
The Terrorist Who Started World War I

DAY OF INFAMY Bernard Weisberger 9-17-01
Old Fears, New Horrors

DAY OF INFAMY Alexander O. Boulton 9-17-01
Don't Overreach (Athens, Lincoln and 9-1-01)

DAY OF INFAMY George Beres 9-17-01
Look in the Mirror

DAY OF INFAMY Norman Markowitz 9-17-01
Sure Was Easier to Fight Commies

DAY OF INFAMY Philip Gold 9-17-01
War May End the Primacy of Leftwing Culture




WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 9, 2001


DAY OF INFAMY Robert Cook 9-14-01
What Historians Can Do to Help

DAY OF INFAMY James Grossman 9-14-01
National Unity without National Blindness

DAY OF INFAMY W. Scott Thompson 9-14-01
Pearl Harbor, Not

HNN COLUMN William Thompson 9-13-01
St. Clair, Little Turtle, Little Crow, and Little Six

HNN EDITORIAL Rick Shenkman 9-13-01
The Price of Naivety

HNN POLL 9-13-01
The Historians' Perspective

HNN POLL 9-13-01
Readers Comment on the Day of Infamy

DAY OF INFAMY Christopher Phelps 9-13-01
History Is Being Made

DAY OF INFAMY Norman Markowitz 9-13-01
Who Is Osama bin Laden?

DAY OF INFAMY P.M. Carpenter 9-13-01
We're Unified--Now Let's Hope We Get the Right Bastards

DAY OF INFAMY Rick Shenkman 9-12-01
Please Remember Dallas

DAY OF INFAMY HNN Staff 9-11-01
History of Bombings in the United States