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Abstract
College campuses have been an important location of political participation as students protest national and university issues. These moments are captured in college yearbooks, making them valuable archival sources for understanding this participation. In this paper, I describe a lesson where students use yearbooks as a hands-on tool to help them understand the complex history of student civic engagement and their own university. Beyond a lesson on civic engagement, students will also learn more about their institution as they observe changes and continuities over time. Exploring yearbooks also provides students with experience examining archives and analyzing qualitative data. I also present a novel database of college yearbook archives, identifying 246 schools with digitized yearbooks. Feedback from my class after the lesson demonstrates that this is an effective and engaging way for students to think about student activism. My students made astute observations about the history of their institution and left curious about their university and its history of political activism. College campuses remain an important location for political activism and this lesson provides historical contexts for students to see the role of young people in our political system.
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