What if your ninety-two-year-old mom died, and you were cleaning out her attic, and you found one of those old round birth-control-pill dispensers with the bubble plastic and foil inserts? You could write a good journal article on that “useless” object, if you’d done enough homework, and that article would be called a “microhistory.” In fact, if you donated an object like that to a good museum, the catalog description that the collections manager wrote for it would be a sort of micro-microhistory.
Very much enjoyed this one.