Students are naturally looking for connections between themselves and what they are learning. This project connects students to historical events that happened on their birthdays, helping them to recognize that each person is part of and contributes to the ongoing American memory.

To complete the project students will:

• identify one or more historical events that took place on the same date as their birthdays.
• describe the Library of Congress website and the primary sources found there.
• create a newspaper page to illustrate that events in the American memory are unfolding everyday.
• appreciate that they are part of our nation's collective history known as the American memory.