About the Editor | p. 8 |
Acknowledgments | p. 9 |
Introduction: Local History - In Search of Common Threads | p. 11 |
The Amateur Historian | p. 21 |
Some Impressions of the Nonacademic Local Historians and Their Writings | p. 33 |
Local Historians and Their Activities | p. 46 |
An Address Delivered Before the New-Hampshire Historical Society | p. 61 |
Deficiencies in Our History: An Address Delivered Before the Vermont Historical and Antiquarian Society at Montpelier, October 16, 1846 | p. 66 |
The Literature of American Local History: A Bibliographical Essay | p. 76 |
The Value of Local History | p. 85 |
The Value of Local History | p. 90 |
Nearby History: Connecting Particulars and Universals | p. 100 |
State, Local, and Regional Studies | p. 110 |
Changes in the Community | p. 119 |
Challenges and Opportunities in Writing State and Local History | p. 129 |
The Usable Past: A Study of Historical Traditions in Kansas City | p. 145 |
A Manifesto: The Defense and Illustration of Local History | p. 164 |
A Sense of Place: A Historian Advocates Conceptual Approaches to Community History | p. 181 |
How Not to Write Local History | p. 191 |
The Local Historian: His Occupational Hazards and Compensations | p. 200 |
How to Write a Dull Town History | p. 209 |
Local and Community History: Some Cautionary Remarks on an Idea Whose Time Has Returned | p. 212 |
The Stuff of History | p. 237 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 240 |
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The Pursuit of Local History Readings on Theory and Practice
by Kammen, Carol-
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