Loewen brought out an important point in his book, Teaching What Really Happened. He states that we, as teachers, need to enable students to see that their lives do have a larger meaning. All too often students see history only as something in the past that happened to other people. I agree with Loewen’s belief that researching the history of their own family, the school, or our local community helps students to see their own lives in a larger historical context. The links to the past are clearly evident in our area, and students should feel themselves to be a part of the chain of events that make up history. Although time constraints and testing schedules make such projects difficult I plan to incorporate some aspects of this type of research into future lessons. If you have done projects of this nature please let me know what worked most successfully for your students.