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Cultural Resources: Implementation of Federal Historic Preservation Program Can Be Improved. Report to Congressional Requesters.
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Duffus, James, III; And Others – 1988
This report summarizes the General Accounting Office's (GAO) review of six federal agencies' compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and its 1980 amendments. The six agencies have not fully complied with their responsibilities and, as a result, federally owned or managed historic properties have been damaged or allowed to…
Descriptors: Federal Regulation, Historic Sites, Preservation, Program Evaluation
Marketing Basics for Interpretive Sites and Attractions: It's All about the Visitors.
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Veverka, John – Legacy, 2001
Professionals spend thousands in design, production, and distribution of marketing brochures for tourist information centers, yet have no proof that the brochures work. Explains how to market heritage attractions by better understanding the intended visitors. Includes questions for identifying markets, ways to generate new market groups, trends in…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Historic Sites, Historical Interpretation, History Instruction
Personalizing the Past: A Review of Literature with Implications for Historical Interpretation.
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Silverman, Lois H. – Journal of Interpretation Research, 1997
Recent research suggests three major realms of experience from which visitors draw schemata that inform meaning-making at heritage sites: (1) associations with and knowledge of history; (2) experiences and behavior regarding the past in everyday life; and (3) expectations of and behavior at heritage sites. Presents three strategies for empirically…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Context Effect, Elementary Secondary Education, Heritage Education