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Chapter 1


--Origins

--Before NPS

--The Park Service Assumes Responsibility

--Interpretation Institutionalized


Chapter 2


--Branching Into History

--The Importance of Historical Interpretation

--Inagurating the Program

--Historical Challenges


Chapter 3


--New Directions

--Audiovisual Innovations

--Museums, Visitor Centers, and the New Look

--Living History

--Environmental Interpretation

--Women in Interpretation

--Other Agendas


Chapter 4


--Interpreting Interpretation


Chapter 5


--Interpretation In Crisis


Appendices


--Memo

--Photographs


Endnotes


--Origins

--Branching Into History

--New Directions

--Interpreting Interpretation

--Interpretation in Crisis

 



INTERPRETATION IN THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE:
A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

by Barry Mackintosh

CHAPTER 1


ORIGINS

 Before The National Park Service

 The Park Service Assumes Responsibility

 Interpretation Institutionalized

 

 


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