This article describes a project that helped fourth-grade students connect personally with and bring North Carolina history to life. Over the months of this project, students asked questions, investigated topics of interest that they chose, conducted in-depth research that included interviewing experts, learned to use a video editor to combine narration and images, and finally represented their findings in multimodal format as a digital story. In this project, all six strands of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts (ELA) were integrated with the North Carolina Essential Standards for Information Literacy and, of course, those for social studies were at the heart of the project.