What does American Independence mean to you?

The Extreme History Project will be at MSU Library to celebrate America’s upcoming 250^th anniversary of independence. Join us in making your own commonplace book — a notebook to record quotations, cartoons, illustrations, and your ideas about what American independence means to you in 2026.  

America's founders and other historical figures — like Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain, and Isaac Newton — kept commonplace books. You can be a part of this important intellectual tradition. We will have notebooks, glue sticks, and a variety of texts and illustrations to get you started.

For more information, contact Outreach and Communications Librarian Jan Zauha at jzauha@montana.edu or 406 994 6554.