--Origins --The Park Service Assumes Responsibility --Interpretation Institutionalized
--Branching Into History --The Importance of Historical Interpretation
--New Directions --Museums, Visitor Centers, and the New Look --Environmental Interpretation
--Interpreting Interpretation
--Interpretation In Crisis
--Memo --Photographs
--Origins
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CHAPTER 2
The Importance of Historical Interpretation There were few historical parks and thus little historical interpretation in the National Park System before the 1930s. Prehistoric human activity was the focus at Mesa Verde and some of the southwestern national monuments, and Indians received secondary attention in several of the large natural parks. Then Horace Albright, director from 1929 to 1933, lobbied actively and successfully to make historical areas a major component of the System. The Service's expansion in this direction--beginning with Colonial (Jamestown and Yorktown) and George Washington Birthplace national monuments in 1930, climaxed in 1933 by wholesale transfer of the War Department's historic forts and battlefields and the National Capital Parks--gave rise to another field of interpretive activity.
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