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The
National Park System Advisory Board was
established in 1935 by an Act of Congress to advise the Secretary
of the Interior on park-related matters, and recommend policies
affecting National Parks and the restoration, reconstruction, conservation
and administration of historic and archeological sites. Click here
for a short history of the Advisory Board.
The 12-member board advises the Director of the National
Park Service (NPS) and the Secretary of the Interior on issues
concerning the national parks and programs managed by the NPS,
and also makes recommendations concerning national historic landmarks,
national natural landmarks, and proposed national historic trails.
The National Park System Advisory Boards Landmarks Committee
has appointed as Chair, Dr. Larry E. Rivers. Dr. Rivers currently serves as President of Fort Valley State
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University. He
previously served as Distinguished Professor of History at Florida A & M University and as Acting Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences; Director of the Master of Applied Social Science
Program; Director of the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences;
and Chairman of the Department of History, Political Science, Economics,
and African American Studies. He holds degrees from Fort Valley
State University (BS), Villanova University (MA), Carnegie-Mellon
University (DA), and the University of London , UK (Ph.D.). Dr. Rivers
specializes in African American history, Southern and Florida History.
National Historic Landmark
nominations are reviewed by the National Park Service Advisory
Board's Landmarks Committee. The Committee includes:
- Dr. Larry E. Rivers (Chair), President, Fort Valley State University
- Dr. James M. Allan, Archeologist, William Self Associates, Inc.
- Dr. Cary Carson, Historian and Former VP of Research Division at Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
- Ms. Mary Werner DeNadai, FAIA, John Milner Architects, Inc.
- Dr. Alferdteen Brown Harrison, Professor of History, Jackson State University
- E. L. Roy Hunt, Professor Emeritus (Preservation Law), University
of Florida College of Law
- Mr. Ronald M. James, Historian and Folklorist, Nevada State Historic
Preservation Officer
- Dr. William J. Murtagh, Historian and Former Keeper, National Register of
Historic Places
- Dr. William D. Seale, Architectural Historian
- Dr. Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Director, Cotsen Institute of Archeology, University of California, Los Angeles
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