After the Fall: New Yorkers Remember September 11 and the Years that Followed - Incite at Columbia University

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    After the Fall: New Yorkers Remember September 11 and the Years that Followed

  • Led by Columbia Center for Oral History Research
  • Published September 6, 2011
  • Authors Peter Bearman Stephen Drury Smith Catherine Ellis Mary Marshall Clark
  • Category Book
  • Forum The New Press
  • Link thenewpress.com

Within days of September 11, 2001, Columbia’s Oral History Research Office deployed interviewers across the city to collect the accounts and observations of hundreds of people from a diverse mix of New York neighborhoods and backgrounds.

With follow-up interviews spanning years, the project produced a deep and revealing look at how the attacks changed individual lives and communities in New York City. After the Fall presents a selection of these fascinating testimonies, with heartbreaking and enlightening stories from a broad range of New Yorkers.

The interviews include first-responders, taxi drivers, school teachers, artists, religious leaders, immigrants, and others who were interviewed numerous times since the 2001 attacks. The result is a remarkable time-lapse account of the city as it changed in the wake of 9/11, one that will resonate powerfully with New Yorkers and millions of others who continue to feel the impact of the most damaging foreign attack to ever occur inside the United States.

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  • go to September 11, 2001 Oral Histories
    September 11, 2001 Oral Histories
    Capturing a comprehensive, longitudinal memory of responses to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Rockefeller Fund, and Columbia University

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