Students sometimes think of the history of science as the dry recounting of the lives of long-dead scientists like Antoine Lavoisier and Isaac Newton. But today’s older generations arguably witnessed history’s most remarkable period of scientific and technological change. Interviewing older citizens, as described by Mindy Bedrossian in the feature below—“From Generation to Generation: Oral Histories of Scientific Innovations From the 20th Century”—can help students see that scientific progress is ongoing and life-changing.