Email Collections

Department of Justice E-mails The Department of Justice received more than 11,000 e-main in response to the agency's public solicitation for comments upon its plans to distribute the fund established by Congress to benefit the victims of September 11 and their families. . [more]

"Satan in the Smoke" E-Mails On the morning of September 11, photojournalist Mark D. Phillips took a picture that would prove to be one of the most evocative and disputed images of that tragic day. The picture, as Phillips first saw it, showed the tops of the twin towers, smoke billowing from the gaping holes left by the planes. Published in numerous newspapers worldwide, the photo prompted some to believe -- as Michigan's Saginaw News reported on 9/13/01 -- "that Satan himself presided over terrorist attacks on the United States." Phillips received thousands of e-mails in the weeks after the attacks -- most of which have been archived here in a searchable format. [more]

Downtown Blackberry Downtown Blackberry is the real-time e-mail record of a group co-workers evacuating lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001. The e-mails were sent via the handheld wireless e-mail system Blackberry, while the co-workers escaped their offices near Ground Zero. The first e-mail was sent just minutes after the first impact. The last was sent when all were counted and safley evacuated.[more]

SEPT11INFO On the morning of Sept 11, after evacuating his downtown DC offices, Andy Carvin created a Yahoo email discussion group called SEPT11INFO. Within the first 12 hours of the list's discussion, 1500 people joined the group, sending over 600 messages that day. In the days and weeks following the attack, SEPT11INFO served as an online forum for debate, as well as a resource for sharing of news, personal stories, volunteer opportunities, pleas for assistance, and in some emotional cases, expressions of fear and rage. The following is Andy Carvin's email announcing the launch of his listserv.[more]

Ytsejam Early on September 11, the members of Ytsejam - a website devoted to progressive rock - established a bulletin board to discuss that morning's attacks. For the next 24 hours, Ytsejam's members kept each other company and helped each other cope with the quickly unfolding events. Note: the Ytsejam email collection may contain adult language not suited for children. [more]

Russian Discussion Board Conversations 9/11-related jokes and discussion from the humor site www.anekdot.ru, one of the ten most popular internet sites in Russia (see www.rambler.ru for more detailed statistics), and an interview from Russkii Zhurnal (Russian Journal; Sept. 17, 2001) with the site's creator, Dmitrii Verner, on the Russian reaction to 9/11 as reflected on his site. All materials are in Russian. [more]

TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" that would be similar in form to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times and that would address one of two 9/11 themes proposed by the group. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here.[more]

The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. [more]

E.A.9.11 Established by Global Kids and shorthand for "Everything After: A September 11 Youth Circle", E.A.9.11 provided a space for high-school students to talk about the issues surrounding the events of September 11 and their feelings about them. The discussion group attracted thousands of emails from teenagers around the world in the several months of its operation.[more]

The Hash House Harriers In the aftermath of the plane attacks and the Anthrax crisis that followed, life as usual became a problem for the Hashers, a colorful group of runners who mark their routes with a trail of flour. Read their e-mail exchanges in the wake of 9/11, as group rituals provoked confusion and sometimes alarmed responses, while changing circumstances prodded Hashers to reflect on their community and the new environment of national crisis.[more]

A D D Y O U R E - M A I L Contribute to the historical record E - M A I L C O L L E C T I O N S Collections of e-mail from groups and individuals H O M E Go to the main page of the September 11 Digital Archive Stories E-mail Still Images Moving Images Audio Documents Guide to Websites About the Archive 911 FAQs Contact Us		Department of Justice E-mails The Department of Justice received more than 11,000 e-main in response to the agency's public solicitation for comments upon its plans to distribute the fund established by Congress to benefit the victims of September 11 and their families. . [more] "Satan in the Smoke" E-Mails On the morning of September 11, photojournalist Mark D. Phillips took a picture that would prove to be one of the most evocative and disputed images of that tragic day. The picture, as Phillips first saw it, showed the tops of the twin towers, smoke billowing from the gaping holes left by the planes. Published in numerous newspapers worldwide, the photo prompted some to believe -- as Michigan's Saginaw News reported on 9/13/01 -- "that Satan himself presided over terrorist attacks on the United States." Phillips received thousands of e-mails in the weeks after the attacks -- most of which have been archived here in a searchable format. [more] Downtown Blackberry Downtown Blackberry is the real-time e-mail record of a group co-workers evacuating lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001. The e-mails were sent via the handheld wireless e-mail system Blackberry, while the co-workers escaped their offices near Ground Zero. The first e-mail was sent just minutes after the first impact. The last was sent when all were counted and safley evacuated.[more] SEPT11INFO On the morning of Sept 11, after evacuating his downtown DC offices, Andy Carvin created a Yahoo email discussion group called SEPT11INFO. Within the first 12 hours of the list's discussion, 1500 people joined the group, sending over 600 messages that day. In the days and weeks following the attack, SEPT11INFO served as an online forum for debate, as well as a resource for sharing of news, personal stories, volunteer opportunities, pleas for assistance, and in some emotional cases, expressions of fear and rage. The following is Andy Carvin's email announcing the launch of his listserv.[more] Ytsejam Early on September 11, the members of Ytsejam - a website devoted to progressive rock - established a bulletin board to discuss that morning's attacks. For the next 24 hours, Ytsejam's members kept each other company and helped each other cope with the quickly unfolding events. Note: the Ytsejam email collection may contain adult language not suited for children. [more] Russian Discussion Board Conversations 9/11-related jokes and discussion from the humor site www.anekdot.ru, one of the ten most popular internet sites in Russia (see www.rambler.ru for more detailed statistics), and an interview from Russkii Zhurnal (Russian Journal; Sept. 17, 2001) with the site's creator, Dmitrii Verner, on the Russian reaction to 9/11 as reflected on his site. All materials are in Russian. [more] TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" that would be similar in form to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times and that would address one of two 9/11 themes proposed by the group. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here.[more] The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. [more] E.A.9.11 Established by Global Kids and shorthand for "Everything After: A September 11 Youth Circle", E.A.9.11 provided a space for high-school students to talk about the issues surrounding the events of September 11 and their feelings about them. The discussion group attracted thousands of emails from teenagers around the world in the several months of its operation.[more] The Hash House Harriers In the aftermath of the plane attacks and the Anthrax crisis that followed, life as usual became a problem for the Hashers, a colorful group of runners who mark their routes with a trail of flour. Read their e-mail exchanges in the wake of 9/11, as group rituals provoked confusion and sometimes alarmed responses, while changing circumstances prodded Hashers to reflect on their community and the new environment of national crisis.[more]
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