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Fact and Fiction in Local History Research

Date
Thu
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Aug 25
Time
1:00 pm
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2:00 pm
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“Local history” research pursues the textures, details, and character that flesh out a specific time and place in history. Writers, biographers, historians, filmmakers, genealogists, academics, podcasters, armchair enthusiasts – really anyone looking to probe the mysterium of the heretofore – regularly come to the Milstein Division at NYPL to research local history. Research strategies can seem unwieldy: where do you start? Resources take a multitude of forms: how are they useful? Attend “Fact and Fiction in Local History Research” and become a better historian of what now was once and where at the county and neighborhood level.