Zen and the Art of Local History: American Association for State & Local History

Foreword by Lorraine McConaghy Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: About Being a Local Historian Call: Not for a Test, but History for Life, Response: Spencer Downing Call: Perambulation, Response: Aaron Sachs Call: Inappropriate Questions, Response: James L. Baggett Call: What We Tell the Youngsters, Response: Kate Betz Call: We Are Not Journalists, Response: Jeffrey J. Kollath Call: Local Knowledge, Response: Mary Alexander Call: Abby Hemenway, Response: Rebecca Conard Call: Water Buffalos, Wildebeests, and Gazelles, Response: Robert B. Townsend Call: Educating Our ¿Other¿ Audiences, Response: Karen Graham Wade Call: The Local History Apprentice, Response: Kate Tiller Call: Millenialism, Response: Robert Richmond Call: Taking the Prize, Response: Donald P. Zuris Call: History¿s Long Rangers, Response: Michael Potaski Call: Retiring Sorts, Response: Richard L. Williams Chapter 2: The Clay for Our Wheels and the Pots We Make Call: Getting Involved, Response: Allyn Lord Call: Out of the Closet, Response: Paul Landry Call: The Clipping Point, Response: Scott Muir Stroh III Call: An Ode to Scrapbooks, Response: Kelly Nolin Call: The Envelope Please, Response: K. Allison Wickens Call; Replevin, Response: Galen R. Wilson Call: Local History and the Underground Railroad, Response: Dina Bailey and Richard C. Cooper Call: The Hall¿s in Your Court(house), Response: James D. Folts Call: Down for the Count, Response: Lila Teresa Church Call: Small Changes, Response: Darlene Roth Call: Rethinking Local History, Response: Bruce Teeple Call: Around and About, Response: William L. Lang Call: Recording the Home Front, Response: Courtney L. Tollison Call: To Blog or Not to Blog, Response: Kate Theimer Chapter 3: Mingled Yarn Call: Community Education, Response: Lynne Ireland Call: Seeking Diversity, Response: Patricia Williams Lessane Call: History Tents, Response: Linda W. Chapin Call: Travel at Home, Response: Janet Vaughan Call: Travel at Home (Redux), Response: Amy H. Wilson Call: In Memoriam: Quite a Decade (Prelude and Postscript), Response; Jessica Dorman Call: Acts of Nature and Other Disturbing Events, Response: Beverly C. Tyler Call: When All is Lost, Response: Alice Parman Call: The Poor are Always Among Us, Response: Robert Archibald Call: What¿s in a Name, Response: Mary E. Montgomery Chapter 4: Truth and Consequences Call: When Not Being Wrong is Not Good Enough, Response: Constantine Dillon Call: Ducking, Bobbing, and Looking Away, Response: Charles F. Bryan, Jr. Call: Unintended Consequences, Response: Joe Meehan Call: Making it Up, Response: Tim Grove Call: Truth and Fiction, Response: Mark T. Mannette Call: Just All the Facts, Mäam, Just Not All the Facts, Response: Annette Atkins Chapter 5: Words in Stone Call: History for Our Times, Response: David A. Janssen Call: In Context, Response: Paige Lilly Call: Local History¿s Audience, Response: J. Kent Calder and Thomas A. Mason Call: Community History, Response: Stephen L. Cox Call: The Things We Ignore, Response: Philip V. Scarpino Call: To Note or Not to Note, Response: Chris Brewer Call: Defining the Field, Response: Matthew Gibson Chapter 6: Work and Play in History¿s Sandbox Call: A Fourteen-Step Program for Local History, Response: Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko Call: Clanking of Canes: A Survey of North American State and Local History, Response: Burt Logan Call: The Future of Historical Societies, Response: James M. Vaughan Call: An Abundance of History, Response: Lisa Anderson Call: Cultural Tourism, Response: Carolyn Brackett Call: In the Company of Our Peers, Response: Janice B. Klein Call: The Importance of a Good Chair, Response: Tobi Voigt Call: Out of the Box and Into the Fray, Response: Katherine D. Kane Call: Tripping over History, Response: Lawrence J. Yerdon Call: Radio Waves, Response: Stan Deaton Call: Random Acts, Response: Cynthia Cardona Melendez Call: Into the Archive, Response: Kathleen D. Roe Call: On Boards, Response: Kent Whitworth Call: Being On Board, Response: Kathleen M. O¿Leary Title/Author index Subject index About the Authors