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UA Historian Reports on Federal Shutdown’s Impact for NPS Historians

Government Shutdown Means History Is on Hold at National Parks Explaining the historical import of National Park Service sites is more calling than career for most of the people who do it, but the shutdown has played hell with that dream. Glenn David Brasher (via the Daily Beast) Much media coverage has focused on the negative impacts of the longest government shutdown in history, from airport security, to the GDP, to FDA food inspections. We have also seen damage to our National […]

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Library Exhibit Celebrating NPS Centennial Includes Items from the Harold Selesky Travel and Tourism Collection

“100 Years of the National Park Service” exhibit Date: Wednesday, August 03, 2016 Time: All Day Location: Pearce Foyer, 2nd floor Gorgas Library The beginning of the National Park Service as we know it today didn’t spring into being with the establishment of the first national park by the U. S. Congress on March 1, 1872. Yellowstone National Park, the first park in the United States and widely held to be the first national park in the world, was established […]

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