When StoryCorps founder Dave Isay asked high school teachers to give their students a unique assignment over Thanksgiving weekend, he thought it would be a neat little experiment.
Instead, it turned into an absolute phenomenon.
By the time Monday morning rolled around, high schoolers in all 50 states had shattered expectations—shaping an entirely new piece of the American historical record in just four days.
Discover how a free mobile app, a holiday weekend, and a generation of teenagers captured over 50,000 priceless family interviews and permanently altered the archives of the Library of Congress forever.