Preface to the third edition

Acknowledgments

1: Why Nearby History?

2: What can be done Nearby?

3: Traces and storytelling

4: Published documents

5: Unpublished documents

6: Oral documents

7: Visual documents

8: Artifacts

9: Landscapes and buildings

10: Preserving material traces

11: Research, writing, and leaving a record

12: Linking the particular and the universal

Appendices

A: Forms to request information from federal agencies

B: Sample gift agreements

C: Sources of archival storage products and information

D: Using the World Wide Web (WWW) in Nearby History

Index

About the author.