"A look at the various laws and regulations that protect historic resources, as well as laws governing nonprofit organizations and museum properties. Revised and updated in 2004" -- Publisher's Website.

Historic preservation, according to the Congressional Research Service, "is the practice of protecting and preserving sites, structures, objects, landscapes, and other cultural resources of historical significance." Although state and local government programs, along with privately financed undertakings, support and bolster historic preservation, it is mainly the federal government's role through enacting legislation, appropriating funds, and administering programs through various federal agencies that contributes to historic preservation policy. Although this historic preservation policy was not officially implemented until the early 1900s, several early efforts came about in the latter 1800s. One of the first efforts by the U.S. Congress was legislation to protect "ancient Puebloan sites in the American Southwest" and then came the acquisition of "thousands of acres of private land to establish five Civil War national battlefield parks" which the then Department of War would oversee. However, in the 1850s, there was a movement to protect Mount Vernon, George Washington's home; when the federal government refused to buy the property, the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association raised the money to buy the property and protect it, thus preserving it for historical purposes. This legal research guide undertakes to highlight early federal historic preservation legislation, including the Antiquities Act of 1906 and the Historic Sites Act of 1935, along with the 1916 establishment of the National Park Service (under the Department of the Interior) for the management of public services and national monuments, as well as the creation of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1949 to help expediate the public to preserve building, sites and object of national importance.--Publisher.

Cultural Property Law is a practical guide to the application and interpretation of the statutes and codes that direct the management, protection, and preservation of cultural property.

This text analyzes the current law and cases

A complete guide to interpreting women’s history. Women’s history is everywhere, not only in historic house museums named for women but also in homes named for famous men, museums of every conceivable kind, forts and battlefields, even ships, mines, and in buckets. Women’s history while present at every museum and historic site remains less fully interpreted in spite of decades of vibrant and expansive scholarship. Doing Women’s History in Public: A Handbook for Interpretation at Museums and Historic Sites connects that scholarship with the tangible resources and the sensuality that form museums and historic sites-- the objects, architecture and landscapes-- in ways that encourage visitor fascination and understanding and center interpretation on the women active in them. With numerous examples that focus on all women and girls, it appropriately includes everyone, for women intersect with every other human group. This book provides arguments, sources (written, oral, and visual), and tools for finding women’s history, preserving it, and interpreting it with the public. It uses the framework of Significance (importance), Knowledge Base (research in primary, secondary, and tertiary sources), and Tangible Resources (the preserved physical embodiment of history in objects, architecture, and landscapes). Discusses traditional and technology-assisted interpretation and provides Tools to implement Doing Women’s History in Public. Using a hospitality model, museums and historic sites are the locales where we assemble, learn from each other, and take our insights into a more gender-shared future.