Public history program internship project research conducted by graduate student Robert L. Hart on "Changing Interpretation: Custer Battlefield, 1940-1986." The 48 original tapes total 39 hours of interviews recorded between June and November 1986. Twenty-three individuals were interviewed: 17 present or past National Park Service battlefield staff members, a Park Service archaeologist, a former Park Service regional historian, a former battlefield museum association officer, a member of the 1976 Centennial Committee, member of the battlefield preservation committee, and a former local interpretive critic. Interviewees include Western historians Robert M. Utley, Donald G. Rickey, Jerome A. Greene, Merrill J. Mattes, Robert A. Murray, and anthropologist Margot Liberty. Harts public history internship report, "Administrative History Research on the Changing Interpretive Program: Custer Battlefield, 1940-1986," detailing the background and conduct of the internship project, is also included in the collection.
From the description of Robert L. Hart collection, 1986 (New Mexico State University). WorldCat record id: 775354530
