PROLOGUE A New Kind of Technician In Search of the Culture of Public History

When Verne Chatelain, the first chief historian of the National Park Service, recounted his efforts to create a “new kind of technician” during the 1930s, he implicitly understood that the historians he brought into his division were the inheritors of a distinct professional genealogy.¹ Before 1930...

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Published in:	Museums, Monuments, and National Parks p. xiii
Main Author:	Meringolo, Denise D
Format:	Book Chapter
Language:	English
Published:	United States University of Massachusetts Press 25-06-2012
Subjects:	American studies Anthropology Arts Behavioral sciences Cultural history Education Educational institutions Ethnography Ethnology Formal education Government Historians Historical methodology Historiography History History instruction History of ideas History of the Americas Human geography Humanities instruction Land use Literary elements Literature Narrative plot National parks North American history Parks Pedagogy Political science Prologues Public land Public space Schools Social sciences United States history Universities
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Summary:	When Verne Chatelain, the first chief historian of the National Park Service, recounted his efforts to create a “new kind of technician” during the 1930s, he implicitly understood that the historians he brought into his division were the inheritors of a distinct professional genealogy.¹ Before 1930 not a single historian had worked for the National Park Service. By the end of the decade, however, a small but growing number would be employed in the bureau’s Washington, D.C., administrative offices, in each of the regional offices, and at many of its historic sites.² New Deal programs and initiatives expanded Park Service
ISBN:	9781558499393 1558499393