The title of this page is History in the National Park Service
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History of the National Park Service' features adminstrative histories of many well-known parks, information about former Secretaries of the Interior, Directors of NPS, and Chief Historians in addition to other resources
 Online Books features over 300 hard to find and out of print books, park studies, administrative histories, historic resource studies, historic structure reports and National Historic Landmark theme studies.
The NPS thematic framework's eight concepts outline the interdisciplinary concerns for use in evaluating the significance and contexts of historic places and building contextual historic-site interpretive and educational programs. A list of parks categorized by areas of significance is also included here.
National Park Service Maritime History
Research and Education has teaching materials, diversity resources, and addition research information.
Oral History has information on the National Park Service's oral history programs, and oral history in general

Collage image of Vicksburg National Military Park memmorial, a painting of the Jamestown landing, and a picture of President Harry S Truman

Themes & Concepts

V. Developing the American Economy
VI. Expanding Science and Technology
VII. Transforming the Environment
VIII. Changing Role of the United States in the World Community

Areas of Significance

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