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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.
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Research and Education has teaching materials, diversity resources, and addition research information.
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Web Feature: Mesa Verde National Park: Shadows of the Centuries
  
Mesa Verde National Park:
Shadows of the Centuries


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. . . Today in History . . .
October 27, 1858
Theodore Roosevelt was born in a brownstone house in New York City. Demolished in 1916, it was reconstructed in 1923 and became Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site in 1962.

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