By connecting students to local stories, spaces, and places, we make the abstract more relevant. A history of racially restrictive housing covenants usually told through the lens of Levittown, NY becomes an exploration of the Circle Drive and Slade Acres subdivisions in Fort Collins; civil rights activism gets relocated from Birmingham and Oakland and can instead be read through the demands of the Black Student Alliance and Mexican-American Committee for Equality at CSU in the late 1960s; writ-large “Indigenous history” is made more tangible through the material contributions of Arapahoe and Cheyenne artists to the culture and fabric of Northern Colorado.