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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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Research and Education has teaching materials, diversity resources, and addition research information.

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The Big Bend of the Rio Grande: A Guide to the Rocks, Geologic History, and Settlers of the Area of Big Bend National Park

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An Ethnohistory of Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida (pdf) (1982)
Interpretating Biological Diversity: A Handbook forNational Park Service Communicators (pdf) (no date)
Plant Communities of Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands National Park (pdf) (1990)
A Sea-Dominated National Park: Its Prospect and Its Proposal, Channel Islands National Monument (pdf) (1963)
Ethnohistorical Background of the Chumash People, Including a Search for Legal Right in Park Lands, for a General Management Plan of Channel Islands National Monument, Claifornia (pdf) (1979)
Channel Islands National Monument and San Miguel Island California, Historic Resource Study (pdf) (1979)
National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Newsletters
Flight 93 Memorial Collections Management Plan (pdf) (2006)
Geological Survey Bulletin 1386: Silurian, Devonian, and Mississippian Formations of the Funeral Mountains in the Ryan Quadrangle, Death Valley Region, California (1974)
The Eruptive Rocks of Electric Peak and Sepulchre Mountain, Yellowstone National Park (1890-91)
Geological Survey 7th Annual Report: Obsidian Cliff, Yellowstone National Park (1888)
Alagnak Wild River An Illustrated Guide to the Cultural History of the Alagnak Wild River (2006)
Natural and Cultural Resources Management Plan, Tuzigoot National Monument (pdf) (2006)
The Archeology of Sivu'ovi: The Archaic to Basketmaker Transition at Petrified Forest National Park (pdf) (2006)
America’s Priceless Heritage: Cultural and Fossil Resources on Public Lands U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management (pdf)(2003)
Chief Park Ranger's and Interpreter's Conference (pdf)(1959)
Bates Well Ranch Historic Structure Report: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (pdf) (2007)
Supplement to Early Indian Farmers and Villages and Communities (pdf) (no date)
Battlefield Protection Study: Honey Springs Battlefield Park, Oklahoma (pdf) (1992)
Farmington Wild and Scenic River Study (pdf) (1995)
The Life of Lava Beds (pdf) (1973)

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