local history
Community's recorded heritage
Local history is the study or documentation of a particular place's past—a town, neighborhood, county, or region.
It focuses on events, people, and changes specific to that area rather than national or world events: The library has an excellent local history collection.
Local history often draws on oral accounts, photographs, and records that larger histories overlook.
Stored historical documents
- landmarksDistinctive, recognizable locations
- monumentsStructures commemorating notable achievements
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
restoration · documentation · historical society · museum · artifact · cataloging · stewardship · plaques
Study of family descent
- primary sourcesFirsthand historical evidence
- field tripsOrganized educational excursions
- walking toursGuided pedestrian sightseeing
- community storiesShared tales of a group
historical society · museum programs · documentary · interview · storytelling · curriculum · research · scholarship
archives
Stored historical documents
- landmarksDistinctive, recognizable locations
- monumentsStructures commemorating notable achievements
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
conservation · restoration · documentation · historical society · museum · artifact · cataloging · stewardship · plaques · markers
genealogy
Study of family descent
- primary sourcesFirsthand historical evidence
- field tripsOrganized educational excursions
- walking toursGuided pedestrian sightseeing
community stories · historical society · museum programs · documentary · interview · storytelling · curriculum · research · scholarship · lecture
- Local Knowledgedialects, landmarks, native plants, regional cuisine, folk traditions
- local archivescity archives, county records, township records, town records, parish records
- Kansas Plainsprairies, homesteads, rural life, rural communities, townships
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
- librarylibrarian, book stacks, books, library card, bookshelves
- social studiescivics, social studies, maps, economics, community
local historyworld history
Record of all peoples
macrohistory · national history · global events · world affairs · grand narrative
local, history, locals, locality, locally, localized, localize, localism, localization