This anthology explores the fundamental question of whether and to what extent regional and local historical perspectives offer particularly great learning potential for children and young people as well as for adults interested in history. Located at the interface between historical didactics and regional history, analog and digital examples from schools, archives, libraries, museums, portals and scientific collections illustrate the significant tension between familiarity and the need for identification and rootedness in the local on the one hand and the gesture of critical, distanced questioning in the field of historical education on the other. The contributions range from antiquity to the present day.