Project Overview
Becoming an American
Visitors are challenged to guess the identities of famous American immigrants in an interactive that reveals their identity through the process of examining their immigration and naturalization records.
After selecting a category—science, movies, statesmen, musicians—visitors are given a question and access to original documents that help them sleuth the identities of notable immigrants in the “We the People” vault at the National Archives, which focuses on family and the rights of citizenship.