Introduction: America's preservation ethos: a tribute to enduring ideals / Diane Lea -- PART ONE. PRESERVATION COMES OF AGE -- America's preservation ethos : a tribute to enduring ideals / Diane Lea -- Some preservation fundamentals / Robert E. Stipe -- Federal preservation program / John M. Fowler -- States : the backbone of preservation / Elizabeth A. Lyon, David L.S. Brook -- Local government programs : preservation where it counts / Lina Cofresi, Rosetta Radtke -- Preservation law and public policy : balancing priorities and building an ethic / Thompson Mayes -- PART TWO. NEW DIRECTIONS SINCE 1966 -- Preserving important landscapes / Genevieve P. Keller, J. Timothy Keller -- Natural environment / Charles E. Roe -- Uncertain destiny : the changing role of archaeology in historic preservation / John H. Sprinkle Jr. -- Private sector involvement in historic preservation / Kathryn Welch Howe -- Nonprofits in the American preservation movement / J. Myrick Howard -- Historic preservation in a global context : an international perspective / Russell V. Keune -- PART THREE. THE HUMAN FACE OF PRESERVATION -- Social and ethnic dimensions of historic preservation / Antoinette J. Lee -- Native Americans and historic preservation / Alan Downer -- Folklife, intangible heritage, and the promise and perils of cultural cooperation / Alan Jabbour -- PART FOUR. HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY -- Where do we go from here? / Robert E. Stipe