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25 Years Later: The 1998 US Embassy Bombings and the FBI

On August 7, 1998, truck bombs exploded at U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 people and injuring more than 4,000. The FBI’s investigations of the attacks, codenamed KENBOM and TANBOM, were at that time the largest deployment in...

25 Years Later: The 1998 US Embassy Bombings and the FBI

25 Years Later: The 1998 US Embassy Bombings and the FBI

On August 7, 1998, truck bombs exploded at U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 people and injuring more than 4,000. The FBI’s...

Reconciliation: A Journey of Transformation

Reconciliation: A Journey of Transformation

Join a three-part pilgrimage marking the impact of September 11 on New York City and expressing the healing birthed out of the destruction of that...

Intersections: 50 Years of Hip Hop & the WTC

Intersections: 50 Years of Hip Hop & the WTC

Intersections examines the often-surprising connections between 9/11 and today’s world. From global industries to individual lives, the attacks...

Turkey at a Crossroads: The 2023 Earthquake, Election, and Centennial

Turkey at a Crossroads: The 2023 Earthquake, Election, and Centennial

On February 6, 2023, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck northern Syria and southern Turkey, killing over 49,000 and displacing millions. The...

The Bin Laden Papers

The Bin Laden Papers

The U.S. Navy SEALs who killed Osama bin Laden in his compound in Pakistan also gathered valuable intelligence on al-Qaeda. In her recently published...

Generation Disaster

Generation Disaster

A particular slice of the population, which includes roughly the younger half of Millennials and the older half of Gen Z, are distinguished by the...

Invisible Victims: 9/11 and Undocumented Immigrants

Invisible Victims: 9/11 and Undocumented Immigrants

It is estimated that of the 2,977 people killed on 9/11, 67 were undocumented immigrants – the majority having been workers at the Windows on the...

September 11, 2001, Commmemoration

September 11, 2001, Commmemoration

Each year on the anniversary of 9/11, the families of victims gather for a ceremony on the 9/11 Memorial plaza to read aloud the names of the 2,983...

Tribute in Light

Tribute in Light

Two beams of light shine upward in this annual tribute to the fallen towers of the World Trade Center. Assembled on the roof of the Battery Parking...

History and Heroism

History and Heroism

Join Jessica DuLong, historian and author of Saved at the Seawall: Stories from the September 11 Boat Lift, and Robert Snyder, Manhattan Borough...

9/11 Memorial and Museum Community Day

9/11 Memorial and Museum Community Day

During this time, the 9/11 Memorial Museum will be reserved exclusively for 9/11 and 2/26/1993 family members, family members of individuals who are...

9/11 Memorial & Museum 5K Run/Walk

9/11 Memorial & Museum 5K Run/Walk

This year's 5K will once again take place in-person in lower Manhattan to remember all those killed over 20 years ago and honor the heroes who put...