Supplemental Materials

Responding to Terrorism: Challenges for Democracy

Responding to Terrorism: Challenges for Democracy addresses the issues arising from the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Students are drawn into consideration of the changing nature of terrorism, the motivations of terrorists, and the policy challenges for the United States.

Online Resources from the Choices Program

Scholars Online resources include interviews with scholars. These short, informative videos can be used in conjunction with student readings or with lessons that accompany each unit.

Are we winning the global war on terror?
A one-day lesson plan from Teaching with the News

Terrorism: How should we respond?
A one-day lesson plan from Teaching with the News

Online Survey—Terrorism: How Should We Respond?

Web Links

Defining the War on Terror
All Things Considered, November 1, 2006 (audio)

U.S. Department of State
Information on official U.S. policy on terrorism

U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Information on threat levels and the functions of the Department

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
The web site of the 9.11 Commission

9/11 Public Discourse Project
A web site developed by ten members of the 9.11 Commission

Council on Foreign Relations
A website that provides clear information about terrorism

Maps of the Middle East
The Perry-Casteñada Map Collection at the University of Texas

Books

Ajami, Fouad. The Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation’s Odyssey (New York: Pantheon Books, 1998). 344 pages.

Bergen, Peter L. Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden (New York: Free Press, 2001). 283 pages.

Cleveland, William L. A History of the Modern Middle East, 2d ed. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000). 585 pages.

Hoffman, Bruce. Inside Terrorism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998). 288 pages.

Hoge Jr., James F. and Rose, Gideon, editors. How did this Happen? Terrorism and the New War (New York: Public Affairs, 2001). 324 pages.

Juergensmeyer, Mark. Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000). 316 pages.

Laqueur, Walter. No End to War: Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century (New York: Continuum, 2003). 288 pages.

NOTE: This is a selected list of resources focused on the topic of the curriculum unit, Responding to Terrorism: Challenges for Democracy. Additional resources will be added to this site as they become available.