Keeping Our Nation's Promise: 9/11 and the Stories That Still Shape Us

At a time when memory risks becoming abstraction, the profiles in Keeping Our Nation’s Promise restore the human scale of history and remind us that remembering is not a passive pursuit. It’s an action in which we must each take part.

There is a moment in nearly every conversation about September 11, 2001, when the story moves away from where someone was and toward the things that have stayed across the years that followed. Details change, but the pattern holds: lives interrupted then reshap...