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| Cultural Resources Team | National Park Service |
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History |
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What We Do |
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| America’s
past is a treasure box of stories about people and places that embraces
daring adventures, the clash of cultures, the resolution of conflicts, and
the playing out of life events on personal as well as on grand scales. Many
of the park areas managed by the National Park Service contain historic
places that represent significant aspects of American history, such as the
Kennecott Mines within Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve and
the 1804 Battle of Sitka within Sitka National Historical Park. Alaska also
has 34 nationally designated landmarks that focus on some of our most important
historic places relating to events such as Russian exploration and settlement,
Alaska Native civil and land rights, fish cannery and seal fur harvesting
industries, and the World War II Aleutian campaign.
Amidst
this heady backdrop, historians at the Alaska Regional Office conduct
research and prepare studies, which are often key documents used by parks
for management and planning purposes (for example, Alaska Subsistence),
they assist park staff and partners with compliance review and planning,
write nominations for the National Register of Historic Places, coordinate
the History Day in Alaska Program, and assist Alaska Native village partners,
as well as National Historic Landmarks stewards across the state in protecting
and preserving our nation’s significant sites.
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