Fifteen years later, teaching 9/11 as a lesson in history
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Guest host Todd Purdum discusses the legacy of the September 11 attacks, on the event of its 15th anniversary.
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| 0:31.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. The 9-11 anniversary. How do we remember? What |
| 0:42.8 | should history teach? I'm Todd Purdom, sitting in for Warren Allney, and this is to the point. |
| 0:51.3 | This weekend is the 15th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, |
| 0:54.7 | a trauma receding from the realm of news into history. How should we remember that day? |
| 0:59.5 | We'll talk to an oral historian at the 9-11 Memorial Museum and a scholar who studied the rise |
| 1:04.7 | of anti-Muslim feeling. With 15 years' perspective on this event, teachers must now explain |
| 1:09.8 | not just the attacks, but what |
| 1:11.6 | led up to them, to a generation of Americans who never lived in a pre-9-11 world. |
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| 2:03.3 | I'm Todd Purdom in for Warren Allney, back with To the Point. In just a moment, we'll discuss the legacy of the September 11th attacks on the eve of |
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