National Parks

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• SOURCE: National Parks Traveler
  2/22/2021
  

  The Future Of Confederate Monuments

  by Kim O'Connell

  “The Park Service needs to ask, ‘Who’s coming to your site and who’s not coming to your site?’” says Denise Meringolo, a professor of public history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. “Those monuments are a barrier to significant portions of the audience, for whom they are not simply inaccurate or annoying. They are traumatizing.”

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• SOURCE: Outside
  9/28/2020
  

  The Problem of Confederate Statues on U.S. Public Lands

  Governments have recently addressed the problem of memorializing the Confederacy on public land. Why should monuments in cemeteries like Arlington or on Civil War battlefields be treated differently? 

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• SOURCE: National Parks Traveler
  9/16/2020
  

  Ed Bearss, Past Chief Historian Of National Park Service, Dies At 97

  Ed Bearss was one of the most important figures in the preservation of Civil War battlefields as sites for the American public to learn about history.

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• SOURCE: Gettysburg Connection
  5/15/2020
  

  Thavolia Glymph Appointed to Gettysburg Foundation Board

  Duke University Professor Thavolia Glymph joins the board of the foundation, which partners with the National Parks Service to preserve and promote historical sites near Gettysburg related to the Civil War battlefield and to the military career of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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• SOURCE: National Parks Conservation Association
  5/1/2020
  

  "An Honest Reckoning"

  Hundreds of people were once enslaved at the opulent  Hampton estate, but for decades after the site became part of the National Park System, their stories remained hidden.  That is changing. 

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• SOURCE: National Parks Service
  4/27/2020
  

  National Park Service Awards More than $3.1 Million in Grants to Preserve and Interpret World War II Japanese American Confinement Sites

  The 22 projects funded will help tell the stories of the more than 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens, imprisoned by the U.S. government during World War II following the attack on Pearl Harbor by the nation of Japan in 1941.

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• SOURCE: KRWG
  4/27/2020
  

  Retired NMSU Professor's Blog Offers A Road Trip Through U.S. History

  Retired history professor Jon Hunner's blog is a travelogue of a 60,000 mile journey to visit the National Parks system. 

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• 2/6/20
  

  Harriet Tubman and a National Legacy of Midnight Skies and Silent Stars

  by Todd Lookingbill

  The Oscar buzz around the film and the popularity of the biopic with critics and general audiences alike creates an opportunity to discuss and shine a light on the important landscape associated with this amazing historical figure. 

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• SOURCE: Powell Tribune
  6/4/2019
  

  Preserving the history of Yellowstone

  It’s important to preserve the history of Native tribes in the Yellowstone region.

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• SOURCE: Time
  4/2/19
  

  The Story We've Been Told About America's National Parks Is Incomplete

  by Dina Gilio-Whitaker

  The national park system has long been lauded as “America’s greatest idea,” but only relatively recently has it begun to be more deeply questioned.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  2/24/19
  

  Overcoming A 'Long, Bitter Relationship,' Grand Canyon And Tribes Mark Centennial

  Eleven tribes have traditional ties to the Grand Canyon.

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• SOURCE: We're History
  6-7-18
  

  Seven More National Parks Interpreting Difficult American History

  National parks are not just places of natural beauty and wildlife. National parks are also places of great significance to American history—both the triumphant and the controversial.

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• 10-15-17
  

  Is the Trump Administration Threatening the Integrity of our National Parks?

  by John Clayton

  They want to privatize campgrounds, a surprising contributor to the national park experience.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  11-29-13
  

  Los Alamos working to create national park

  But anti-nuclear activists are fighting the process every step of the way.

• SOURCE: AP
  2-22-13
  

  National park cuts detailed in memo

  The towering giant sequoias at Yosemite National Park would go unprotected from visitors who might trample their shallow roots. At Cape Cod National Seashore, large sections of the Great Beach would close to keep eggs from being destroyed if natural resource managers are cut.Gettysburg would decrease by one-fifth the numbers of school children who learn about the historic Pennsylvania battle that was a turning point in the Civil War.As America's financial clock ticks toward forced spending cuts to countless government agencies, The Associated Press has obtained a National Park Service memo that compiles a list of potential effects at the nation's most beautiful and historic places just as spring vacation season begins......Even Declaration House in Pennsylvania, the place where Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence, wouldn't be spared. Nor would comfort stations on the Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi...