On Doing Local History

From one point of view, this is an incredibly useful book that all local historians should read. It gave me several ideas for new projects, two of them so immediately actionable that I've already started on them. Although the author and many of the examples are American, as a British local historian I still found it very useful.

From another point of view, this is an instrument of white supremacy. It almost completely ignores the fact that the land now known as the USA had a long history before white people arrived, and has only a few passing mentions of the people whose land was invaded and stolen.

I read the second edition (from 2003) and there is now a third edition available, so I do hope there have been improvements in the latter aspect.