A Personal Exploration of Digital History

This week’s task was to optimize the use of slideware program when given only 3 slides to cover one moment from history. As an American citizen born in the mid-1990s, one of the most significant historical events in my mind is the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 – exactly what I chose to focus my efforts on for this assignment. My goal here is not necessarily to provide all of the information about the attacks, but to simply combine first-hand observations in the form of quotes and a timeline of events. When it comes to wars and other historical events, we tend to think of them as drawn out – sometimes lasting years – but 9/11 truly changed international relations and the United States greatly in just a matter of hours. The aim here is to show how the impact of 9/11 was spread over such a short amount of time and how quickly it was realized that this would not be an easy event to recover from. Below, I will break down my presentation into individual slides but a full slideshow version can be found here.

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