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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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Occupied Corinth: The Contraband Camp and the First Alabama Regiment of African Descent, 1862-1865 (1995) (pdf)
Progress in the development of the national parks (1916) (pdf)
National Parks Portfolio ( 1916] (pdf)
Conducted Trips: Training Bulletin for Field Employees of the National Park Service United States Department of the Interior (1954) (pdf)
Antiquities: Training Bulletin for Field Employees of the National Park Service United States Department of the Interior (1954) (pdf)
People of the North Cascades (1986) (pdf)
McLoughlin House Unit Fort Vancouver National Historic Site (2008) (pdf)
A Very Large Array: Early Federal Historic Preservation—The Antiquities Act, Mesa Verde, and the National Park Service Act (2008) (pdf)
The National Park Service and Civic Engagement (2008) (pdf)
Cultural Landscape Report for the Frijole Ranch, Guadalupe Mountains National Park (1994) (pdf)
Guadalupe Mountains National Park: Bibliography (1977) (pdf)
The Guadalupe Mountains Symposium: Proceedings of the 25th anniversary conference on research and resource management in Guadalupe Mountains National Park (1996) (pdf)
Geological Survey Professional Paper 446: Geology of the Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico (1964)
Geological Survey Professional Paper 215: Geology of the Southern Guadalupe Mountains, Texas (1948)
Building 25, Enlisted Men's Barracks Historic Structure Report (2002) (pdf)
Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial Column and Plazas, Historic Structure Report (1976) (pdf)
Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial 1996 Visitor Use Study (1996) (pdf)
Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial Cultural Landscape Report (1996) (pdf)

Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial Historic Structures Report, Part 1, Building No, 2-Memorial Shaft (1963) (pdf)

A Construction History of the Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial, Park I (1961) (pdf)

A Construction History of the Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial, Part II (1961) (pdf)

Part One of the National Park System Plan-History (1972) (pdf)

The Women of Fort Vancouver (1977) (pdf)

The Old Point Loma Lighthouse Historic Structure Report, Cabrillo National Monument (1981) (pdf)

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