FAIRFAX, Va., Sept. 10 -- George Mason University issued the following news release:
On the first day of class, George Mason University history professor Meredith Lair asked her students a simple question: Where were you on 9/11?
As the nation marks the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Lair is providing students with a chance to examine the event, not just as a turning point in U.S. history, but through the lenses of public memory, media literacy, commemoration, and civic responsibility.
For most of Lair's students, the answer to her question is not a memory, but an act of historical reconstruction. Only five students in the history special topics class are old enough to remember the attacks. The rest were born later and only kn...