microhistory - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

In a 1973 “invitation” to this genre, Luis González argued that this term should be used in place of “local history,” since it relies on a “myopia that helps bring” its subjects “into focus.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this genre of historical writing, exemplified by both Emanuel Le Roy Ladurie’s study of the peasant mentalité (“mon-ta-lee-TAY”) in the village of Montaillou (“mon-tie-yoo”) and Carlo Ginzburg’s The Cheese and the Worms.

ANSWER: microhistory [prompt on social history; prompt on cultural history]

[10e] Luis González narrated historical events like this one through their effects on the villagers of San José de Gracia in Michoacán. This event saw the 1911 overthrow of the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz.

ANSWER: Mexican Revolution [or Revolución mexicana]

[10h] The World and a Very Small Place in Africa, a microhistory of the kingdom of Niumi in what is now this country, points out inaccuracies in the novel Roots’ depiction of Kunta Kinte’s kidnapping from Juffure in this country.

ANSWER: Republic of the Gambia

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	16.00	80%	50%	30%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	18.75	88%	63%	38%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	15.00	100%	33%	17%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	11.43	86%	14%	14%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	15.00	75%	75%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	18.75	75%	88%	25%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	7.50	25%	50%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Stanford B	10	10	0	20
Berkeley B	Berkeley C	10	10	0	20
McGill A	Brock	0	10	0	10
Toronto G	Carleton University	0	0	0	0
Guelph	Western A	0	10	0	10
Waterloo B	McGill B	10	10	0	20
McMaster A	Western C	0	10	10	20
Ottawa	McMaster B	10	10	10	30
Queen's	Toronto Metropolitan	10	10	0	20
Toronto E	Toronto B	10	10	0	20
UBC B	Toronto C	10	0	10	20
Simon Fraser	Western B	0	10	0	10
Central Florida A	Central Florida B	10	10	0	20
Central Florida C	Florida A	0	10	0	10
Florida B	Florida C	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A	CWRU A	10	10	0	20
CWRU B	Michigan A	0	10	0	10
Ohio State B	Michigan B	0	10	0	10
Michigan State	Michigan C	0	10	0	10
Ohio State C	Pittsburgh	0	10	0	10
Berkeley D	Stanford A	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Purdue B	10	10	0	20
Chicago B	Purdue A	0	10	10	20
Northwestern B	Chicago C	0	0	10	10
Illinois A	Chicago D	10	10	0	20
Illinois C	Illinois B	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame B	Indiana C	10	10	0	20
Indiana A	Northwestern C	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame A	Indiana B	10	10	0	20
Dartmouth A	Bowdoin A	10	10	0	20
Brandeis B	Bowdoin B	0	10	0	10
Harvard B	Brown	0	10	0	10
Harvard A	Dartmouth B	10	10	10	30
MIT	Southern Connecticut State	0	10	0	10
Yale	Brandeis A	0	10	0	10
Carleton College	Missouri A	0	10	0	10
Washington A	Missouri B	10	10	0	20
Claremont	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Iowa State	Washington B	10	10	0	20
Texas A	Murray State A	10	10	0	20
Texas B	Texas A&M A	10	10	10	30
Alabama A	Georgia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Bruin	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Alabama B	0	10	0	10
Tennessee B	Mississipi State	0	10	0	10
Louisville B	Sewanee	0	10	0	10
WashU A	Tennessee A	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt B	Kentucky	0	0	0	0
Oxford A	Bristol	10	10	0	20
Cambridge C	Imperial C	0	10	0	10
Southampton A	Cardiff	10	10	0	20
Oxford B	City St. George's	10	0	0	10
Imperial A	Durham	10	10	0	20
Oxford C	Edinburgh A	0	10	0	10
LSE	Edinburgh B	10	0	0	10
Manchester	Montpellier	0	10	0	10
Imperial B	Southampton B	10	10	0	20
Cambridge B	UCL	10	10	0	20
Warwick A	Birmingham	10	10	0	20
Warwick B	Cambridge A	10	0	0	10
Columbia A	Vassar	10	10	10	30
John Jay	Maryland B	10	0	0	10
Columbia B	Johns Hopkins A	10	10	0	20
Maryland A	Columbia C	10	10	0	20
Georgetown	Maryland C	10	10	10	30
NYU A	Johns Hopkins B	10	10	0	20
NYU B	Catholic	10	10	0	20
NYU C	Swarthmore	0	0	0	0
Cornell A	Binghamton B	10	10	0	20
Binghamton A	Cornell C	0	0	0	0
RIT	Cornell B	0	0	0	0
Penn State	Rochester	10	0	0	10