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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...