Park History Program
Electronic Resources
The National Park Service's IRMA Datastore Library contains thousands of electronic publications covering the history of the National Park Service and the units comprising the National Park System. We invite you to learn more about history and how the National Park Service works to preserve it.We also invite you to visit our new History of the National Park Service webpage at https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1220/history-of-the-national-park-service.htm
Featured Publications
Climate Change
- National Park Service Climate Change Response Strategy (2010) (pdf)
- Climate Change Scenarios Handbook (2013) (pdf)
- Planning For the Impact of Sea-Level Rise on U.S. National Parks (2014) (pdf)
- Coastal Adaptations Strategy Handbook (2016) (pdf)
- Cultural Resources Climate Change Plan (2016) (pdf)
- National Climate Change Interpretation and Education Strategy (2016) (pdf)
- Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge Projections for the National Park Service (2018)
The National Park Service
- Reassessing the National Park Service and the National Park System (2008) (pdf)
- Managing the National Park Service in the Information Age (2010) (pdf)
- A Call to Action: Preparing for a Second Century of Stewardship and Engagement (2011) (pdf)
The National Park System
- The Economic Destiny of the National Parks (1917)
- Our National Parks (1917) (pdf)
- Annual Report Southwestern Monuments 1934
- Annual Report Southwestern Monuments 1935
- Annual Report Southwestern Monuments 1936
- California Division of Mines and Geology, Mineral Information Service Volume 21, Number 8, Geology and Road Log of Pinnacles National Monument (1968)
- Beyond the 59th Park: Reforming the Nomenclature of the US National Park System (2012) (pdf)
- Revisiting Leopold: Resource Stewardship in the National Parks (2012) (pdf)
- National Park Service System Plan: One Hundred Years (2017) (pdf)
- Appomattox Manor - City Point: A History (1978) (pdf)
- Field Division of Education Publication Series
- Tea Pot Tempest: The Power of Place in the Boston Tea Party (2017) (pdf)
History in the National Parks
Please note: Links found on these pages may contain copyrighted material. Permission has been granted to the National Park Service to post this information online, but the copyrights are still reserved by the owner of the original publications. While NPS-produced publications are normally considered to be in the public domain, many of them contain illustrations that are copies of materials NOT in the public domain for which one-time reprint permission was obtained prior to each document's publication online. For any work still under copyright, persons wishing to use these illustrations for any purpose beyond educational perusal must obtain their own permissions from the owners of the original materials.
Electronic Publications
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