Maybe you have moved to a different house and are interested in discovering more about its history. You might be newcomers to a town or village and want to gain a sense of its identity, or maybe lived ...

Public libraries gather a wide variety of materials to build a local history reference collection (LHRC), everything from cemetery records to hand-tied flies for anglers’ poles to whatever patrons ...

Find out what has already been written and published locally, about your area or your topic. See what other people have done already and examine their work with a critical eye - does it ring true, are ...

Late this summer, I wrote in Slate about my sad lack of knowledge of local history, and resolved to learn more about the place where I live: Athens, Ohio. I put together a series of open-ended ...

Why does anyone think it is a good idea to save the crumbling old blacksmith shop structure on the Geneva property that once housed Mill Race Inn? Why do we hear about historic preservation ...

In honor of Black History Month this year, KSAT Explains is highlighting three entities that work to preserve and share black history year round. The San Antonio Observer is a local African American ...

History is everywhere! Historian-in-Residence for Children Dervilia Roche offers a few suggestions for young people interested in exploring local history... My name is Dervilia Roche and, since ...

Books, articles, papers, pamphlets, newspapers, directories and all sorts of miscellaneous material, which is most likely to be found in the local studies collection of your library. Such material is ...