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Guest Speaker: John H. Sprinkle, Jr., Bureau Historian, National Park Service

John Sprinkle joined the National Park Service in 1998, where he has worked with National Historic Landmarks program, the Federal Preservation Institute, and now serves as the agency's Bureau Historian. He is the author of Crafting Preservation Criteria: The National Register of Historic Places and American Historic Preservation (2014), Saving Spaces: Historic Land Conservation in the United States (2018), and Enhancing the Presence of the Past: The Civil Rights Movement and American Historic Preservation (forthcoming, 2022).