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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

Collection of studies, reports, essays, and online books specific to park units

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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Fossil Flora of the John Day Basin, Oregon

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Park Structures and Facilties(1935?)
Southwesterrn Monuments Special Report: No. 13, The Excavation of Room 7 Wupatki(1935?) (pdf)
Sitka National Monument, Alaska (1959) (pdf)
National Park Service Chief Historian Robert Sutton on Historical Interpretation in Parks (2012)
Meet Dwight T. Pitcaithley, former chief historian for the National Park Service (2012)
Addressing the Causes of the Civil War in Public History (2010)
The Mystery of Radar in Hawaii (2011)
Pearl Harbor Attack (2006)

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