Terrorism: A Research Guide

For students writing papers about terrorism or for researchers that want to know more, there is a great number of informational sources available to them about terrorism. Coverage includes methods, impact, foreign relations, personal loss, and the various response to terrorism. The form of this information comes in pictures, charts, maps, Web sites, printed materials, and government documents. The terms and phrases listed in the subject headings below can be used to search for more materials in the library's catalog and research databases. If you need further assistance, please ask a librarian.

Encyclopedia of Terrorism by Harvey W. Kushner. Thousand Oaks , CA : Sage, 2003. ISBN: 0761924086.
Over 300 articles that cover such topics as Al-Qaeda, biological terrorism, extremism, Saddam Hussein, jihad, Zacarias Moussaoui, and suicide bombers. Includes chronology, photographs, maps, and charts.

U.S. Foreign Policy Since the Cold War by Richard Joseph Stein. Bronx , NY : H. W. Wilson, 2001. ISBN: 0824209931
Includes a time line of U.S. foreign policy since the Cold War, America 's approach to foreign policy, European relations, military intervention, China and “rogue states,” and terrorism.

Newspaper Headlines from the Poynter Institute
http://www.poynterextra.org/extra/gallery/Extra1.htm
Front pages from special editions published on Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

PBS Frontline: Hunting Bin Laden
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/
A coproduction of PBS Frontline and The New York Times , this site offers video footage of an interview with Bin Laden, and other transcripts from Bin Laden interviews throughout the years.

Countering the changing threat of international terrorism: Report of the National Commission on Terrorism: Hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, June 15, 2000.
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS4710

9-11 Commission Report. Washington, DC: The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, August 2004.
http://www.9-11commission.gov
Authored by the 9-11 Commission, an independent, bipartisan commission chartered to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks.

National Security Archive presents summaries and background government information as the September 11th Sourcebooks
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/sept11/

Presidential News and Speeches
www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/
Presidential news releases and speeches from September 2001.

The Taliban: Engagement or Confrontation? Hearing before the Committee on Foreign
R elations, United States Senate, July 20, 2000.
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS10607

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Response to Terrorism
http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/
Includes in-depth daily chronologies from September to December 2001, the other chronicling “Significant Terrorist Incidents” through the years 1961–2001. From the Office of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State.

September 11th Web Archive
http://web.archive.org/collections/sep11.html
View archived Web sites in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center .

Shattered: A Photo Essay
www.time.com/time/photoessays/shattered/index.html
A collection of photographs by photojournalist James Nachtwey, sponsored by Time magazine.

Center for Defense Information: Terrorism Project
www.cdi.org/terrorism/
Committed to independent research on the social, economic, environmental, political, and military components of global security.

The Department of Homeland Security
www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/
A department created to make America a safer place after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Site monitors the “Nationwide Threat Level” according to the Homeland Security Advisory system devised by the Bush Administration.

The Terrorism Research Center
www.terrorism.com
Founded in 1996, The Terrorism Research Center offers information about cyberterrorism, terrorism links to organized crime, and bioterrorism. In addition, terrorist and counterterrorist profiles can be found here.