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A clear blue Tuesday morning became one of the darkest days in American history. On September 11, 2001, millions of people began the day with ordinary routines: school drop-offs, subway rides, coffee poured in break rooms, planes boarding for cross-country flights. Within hours, those routines gave way to smoke, sirens, phone calls, collapsing towers, and a grief that spread far beyond New York, Washington, D.C., and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Remembering Septemb

September 17, 1787. Philadelphia. Independence Hall. Thirty-nine delegates stepped forward and signed their names to a document that would become the foundation of the most enduring democracy in human history. Two hundred and thirty-nine years later — in the middle of America's 250th anniversary year — we still live under that document. What actually happened on September 17, 1787 The Constitutional Convention had been meeting since May. Delegates from 12 of the 13 states arg