This guide is an introduction to the research process that, while not being an exhaustive list of information resources available, should be helpful in getting started in your research about September 11. Below you will find pointers to suggested research terms about September 11, materials in the library catalog about September 11, websites relevant to September 11, and links to library databases that contain information about September 11. Please use our email reference service, contact us at (310) 434-4254, or visit us in the library at the reference desk if you need further assistance.
Suggested Research Terms
One of the really helpful things when searching for information about a topic is a short list of terms related to a topic. We think the following terms will help with your research about September 11:
- September 11, 2001
- Terrorism
- Islam
- Zionism
- Taliban
- al Qaeda
- Afghanistan
- World Trade Center (New York)
- Pentagon
- Homeland Security
Materials in the library catalog related to September 11
We have the following materials in the library catalog related to September 11:
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
- Terrorism United States
- Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Bin Laden, Osama
- Arab-Israeli Conflict
- Middle East Politics and Government
- United States Military Policy
- United States Defenses
- World Politics 1995-2005
- Islamic fundamentalism
Websites on the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks on the United States
The following websites will help you with your research on September 11:
The site is set up to "collect, preserve, and present the history of the September 11, 2001 attack in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania and the public responses." Contains firsthand accounts, digital images, and suggestions on creating curriculum materials about the catastrophe.
LII presents groups of web links to pages relating to the Sepember 11 attack and its aftermath. Sections include "The Attacks", "Rebuilding & Remembering", "War & Peace", and "Related Issues" such as: Anthrax, Islam, National Security, the United States Flag.
Presents a BBC biography and discussion of Bin Laden, his dealings with the CIA and stock markets, and speculations about his involvement with the September 11 attacks.
Presents a PBS (Frontline) discussion offering "background and insight into [Bin Laden's] life and motives, from his formative experience in the Afghan jihad, or holy war, against the Soviets, to his scathing criticism of the Saudi royal family and his campaign to drive American infidel troops out of Saudi Arabia, to his statements and fatwahs calling for the murder of Americans."
This site is set up to "provide users with links to websites that contain frequently-updated and highly useful materials on the events of September 11 and the U.S. response" and to "provide users with topically-organized links to specific articles and research papers from those sites."
The site seeks to discuss and propose peaceful alternatives to the war on terrorism.
This project's goals are to "collect, preserve, and present the history of the September 11, 2001 attack in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania and the public responses." The site is a searchable collection of first-hand accounts of the events and the aftermath, "collecting and archiving emails and digital images growing out of these events, organizing and annotating the most important web-based resources on the subject, and developing materials to contextualize and teach about the events."
This site presents links to information on Afghanistan, including organizations, directories, women, and sections discussing the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin Laden.
Site linking to articles about Afghanistan from over 200 online newspapers and periodicals around the world . Most are from sources from the United States.
Presents information on topics relating to terrorist events in the United States and their aftermaths, including the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, Operation Enduring Freedom, and current events in the War on Terrorism.
This site is useful to researchers seeking explanations of Islam, the Qur'an/Koran, the status of women, and other related topics.
The site presents significant information that helps to put a face to individual victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11.
Another useful site for personalized remembrances of many of the victims of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
This web page presents evidence supporting the conviction that Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda were responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
Presents introductory, general information about the World Trade Center buildings, information about their structural systems, and engineers' theories about why they collapsed. Images, photographs, diagrams, are available.
The following Santa Monica College Library online databases may contain material relevant to September 11. Databases may include magazine, newspaper and journal articles. Please note: you must be a Santa Monica College student, faculty or staff member to use these services.
Academic Search Premier, MasterFile PremierAcademic Search Premier and MasterFile Premier provide full text for over 6200 periodicals including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.
Philosophy and Religion Collection
Covers such topics as epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy, world religions, biblical studies, religious history. Includes more than 300 full text journals.
National Newspapers (1985- current)
Local, regional and national news coverage from selected newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, USA Today, Christian Science Monitor.
Newspaper Source Plus
Provides selected full text for many U.S. and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 800 U.S. regional newspapers.
CountryWatch
Country Reviews provide geographical, political, economic, corporate and environmental information for every country in the world. Country Wire is compiled from the wire services on the latest political, economic, corporate, and environmental events on a country by country basis.
Military and Government Collection
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 350 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 450 titles.
JSTOR
Back issues of over 300 scholarly journals in a wide variety of disciplines: African American Studies, African Studies, Anthropology, Archeology, Art and Architecture, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, Geography, History, Language & Literature, Latin American Studies, Mathematics, Music, Middle East Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Slavic Studies, Sociology and Statistics.
Encyclopedia Americana
Includes 45,000 articles, plus thousands of hypertext links to web sites featuring additional data. It is updated quarterly.
Encyclopedia, Funk and Wagnalls New World
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
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