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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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