Anne Mitchell Whisnant’s teaching, research, consulting, and writing focus on public history, digital and geospatial history, and the history of the U.S. National Parks. In 2006, UNC Press published her Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History, the first serious study of the development of the National Park Service’s most visited site. Through Primary Source History Services, which she runs with husband David Whisnant, Whisnant has been the co-principal historian on three book-length NPS projects: an administrative history of De Soto National Memorial, a Historic Resource Study of Cape Lookout National Seashore, and a visitor handbook for Shenandoah National Park.
