As part of a team creating exhibits to commemorate the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial year, I investigated college scrapbooks dating from the 1880s to the 1960s, held in the university’s archives. I chose the one kept by Alfred Wilkinson Wilson, a chemical engineering student from Detroit, from 1917 to 1921, to explore in detail for my exhibit. Titled “Pretty Good Record for a War Year”: Scrapbooks and Self-Fashioning, the exhibit looked at how Alfred selected, arranged, and labeled the ephemera of college life. In doing so, he created a story about what it was like to be an undergraduate in the years when America entered the First World War and suffered through the terrible flu pandemic of 1918. Alfred’s juxtapositions of things that held personal meaning with things that spoke to world affairs revealed how one Michigan student thought about his place in history.