The Society for the Study of Local and Regional History (SSLRH) is a non-profit organization formed to promote the study of and preservation of Southwest Minnesota's historical, cultural, ethnic and religious heritage. The SSLRH is located on the campus of Southwest State University in Marshall, Minnesota.

The SSLRH carries out its work in close conjunction with Southwest State University, the university's Regional Studies Program, its Southwest Minnesota Historical Research Center, and its History Department.

The SSLRH's goals are to stimulate new research and to offer new models of rural studies curriculum requirements, its faculty's unique commitment to regional studies, its global studies program, and its Regional Studies Center, whose purpose is to understand and to record cultural change in Southwest Minnesota.

The SSLRH carries out its work by the publication of the Historical Essays on Rural Life series. It also holds annual conference dedicated to large and comprehensive themes such as: crops and culture, waters and land, and ethnicity and land holdings.

By joining the SSLRH you are putting yourself in contact with a small but important source of regional history.