Zen and the art of local history
(eBook)

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 -- 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 -- 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 --

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, Ma'am, Just Not All the Facts, Response: Annette Atkins

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

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.