Despite what you may have heard, it was 9/11 family members who conceived the idea to bring the unidentified and unclaimed remains back to a repository and viewing room at sacred bedrock at Ground Zero.

Multiple mailings from both the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. and the Coalition of 9/11 Families (an umbrella group of seven major family advocacy groups) solicited input from thousands of 9/11 family members, who responded with overwhelming approval. More.

The National September 11 Memorial Museum has won accolades for its exhibitions depicting the terrorist attacks and their aftermath, but it also has come under fire for its gift shop, a planned cafe and a recent reception for donors.

We have just witnessed the opening of the 9/11 memorial and museum at site of the destroyed World Trade Towers, an event that once more raises attention to how we Americans form our “collective memories.”

In a recent suggestive essay in the Journal of Social History, Stacy Otto argues that New Yorkers have mourned the 2001 tragedy as New Yorkers had mourned the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in 1911. More.

The morning sky was as blue as it was when I first met Lt. Tom McGoff and his Engine Co. 217 crew more than 12 years ago - on America’s darkest day.

I took a deep breath and entered the National September 11 Memorial & Museum last week not knowing what memories might be triggered by the sights and sounds housed below ground, within the 110,000-square-foot space. More.

Earlier this month the nation watched the dedication of the museum in New York City commemorating the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

The somber ceremony reminded us of how much was lost that day, not just to the city of New York but to all of America as we felt the effects of our homeland being so vehemently targeted by terrorists. More.

Many New Yorkers, still trying to make sense of the 2001 destruction of the World Trade Center, have had a single question as a museum was being built at ground zero: Too soon?

Now that the 9/11 Memorial Museum, as it's officially called, has opened to the public, they and others may find themselves asking something else: Too much? More.

On the morning before the museum opened to the public, Mary Lou Buss took the ferry from Staten Island to lower Manhattan to visit the place her sister died.

There are prominent videos of the twin towers collapsing, photos of people falling from them, portraits of nearly 3,000 victims and voicemail messages from people in hijacked planes.