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¡Pleibol! En los barrios y las grandes ligas book cover

¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues En los barrios y las grandes ligas

Margaret Salazar-Porzio, Adrian Burgos Jr., and Robin Morey

A Right to Bear Arms?: The Contested Role of History in Contemporary Debates on the Second Amendment cover image

A Right to Bear Arms? The Contested Role of History in Contemporary Debates on the Second Amendment

Jennifer Tucker, Barton C. Hacker, and Margaret Vining

America’s Paper Money: A Canvas for an Emerging Nation

William L. Pressly

Astride Two Worlds: Technology and the American Civil War book cover

Astride Two Worlds: Technology and the American Civil War

Barton C. Hacker

Beyond Grief: Sculpture and Wonder in the Gilded Age Cemetery book cover

Beyond Grief: Sculpture and Wonder in the Gilded Age Cemetery

Built Heritage Evaluation: Manual Using Simple Test Methods book cover

Built Heritage Evaluation: Manual Using Simple Test Methods

A. Elena Charola, Jorge Otero, Paula T. DePriest, and Robert J. Koestler

Carriage Terminology: An Historical Dictionary

Don H. Berkebile

Connecting Women: National and International Networks during the Long Nineteenth Century book cover

Connecting Women: National and International Networks during the Long Nineteenth Century

Barton C. Hacker, Joanne Paisana, Margaret Esteves Pereira, Jaime Costa, and Margaret Vining

Culture Throughlines: Values, Visions and Transformation—African American Music, American Culture, and Society

William Banfield

Cutting a New Pattern: Uniformed Women in the Great War book cover

Cutting a New Pattern: Uniformed Women in the Great War

Barton C. Hacker and Margaret Vining

Economic Analyses of Federal Scientific Collections: Methods for Documenting Costs and Benefits book cover

Economic Analyses of Federal Scientific Collections: Methods for Documenting Costs and Benefits

David E. Schindel

Engaging Smithsonian Objects book cover

Engaging Smithsonian Objects

Mary Jo Arnoldi (Editor)

Engendering Culture book cover

Engendering Culture

Evaluación del Patrimonio Construido: Manual de Ensayos Preliminares book cover

Evaluación del Patrimonio Construido: Manual de Ensayos Preliminares

A. Elena Charola, Jorge Otero, Paula T. DePriest, and Robert J. Koestler

Every Stamp Tells a Story: The National Philatelic Collection book cover

Every Stamp Tells a Story: The National Philatelic Collection

Cheryl Ganz, Richard R. John, M. T. Sheahan

Exhibiting America: The Smithsonian's National History Museum, 1881-2018 book cover

Exhibiting America: The Smithsonian’s National History Museum, 1881-2018

David K. Allison and Hannah Peterson

Fred Whipple's Empire: The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 1955–1973 book cover

Fred Whipple’s Empire: The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 1955–1973

David H. DeVorkin

Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 1: Introduction book cover

Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 1: Introduction

Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 2: Indians in Contemporary Society book cover

Handbook of North American Indians: Volume 2 – Indians in Contemporary Society

Garrick A. Bailey

Horatio Greenough and the Form Majestic: The Biography of the Nation's First Washington Monument book cover

Horatio Greenough and the Form Majestic: The Biography of the Nation’s First Washington Monument

Hubble's Legacy: Reflections by Those Who Dreamed It, Built It, and Observed the Universe with It (Smithsonian Contribution to Knowledge) book cover

Hubble’s Legacy

Roger D. Launius, David H. Devorkin (Editors)

Illuminating Instruments (Artefacts: Studies in the History of Science and Technology) book cover

Illuminating Instruments

Peter J. T. Morris, Klaus Staubermann (Editors)

Japan in the Age of Modernization: The Arts of Ōtagaki Rengetsu and Tomioka Tessai

Joseph Henry: The Rise of an American Scientist (Smithsonian Studies in the History of Film & Television) book cover

Joseph Henry: The Rise of an American Scientist (Smithsonian Studies in the History of Film & Television)

Albert E. Moyer

Lapps and Labyrinths: Saami Prehistory, Colonization, and Cultural Resilience book cover

Lapps and Labyrinths

Noel D. Broadbent

Lox, Stocks, and Backstage Broadway: Iconic Trades of New York City book cover

Lox, Stocks, and Backstage Broadway

Many Voices, One Nation: Material Culture Reflections on Race and Migration in the United States book cover

Many Voices, One Nation: Material Culture Reflections on Race and Migration in the United States

Margaret Salazar-Porzio, Joan Troyano, Lauren Safranek

Material Culture and Electronic Sound (Artefacts: Studies in the History of Science and Technology) book cover

Material Culture and Electronic Sound (Artefacts: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

Frode Weium, Tim Boon (Editors)

Monuments & Memory book cover

Monuments and Memory: History and Representation in Lowell, Massachusetts

Martha Norkunas

Nuclear Weapons and Aircraft Carriers book cover

Nuclear Weapons and Aircraft Carriers

Open Borders to a Revolution: Culture, Politics, and Migration (Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge) book cover

Open Borders to a Revolution: Culture, Politics, and Migration

Jaime Marroquin Arredondo, Adela Pineda Franco, Magdalena Mieri (Editors)

Picturing Poverty: Print Culture and FSA Photographs book cover

Picturing Poverty: Print Culture and FSA Photographs

Cara A. Finnegan

Picturing the Past book cover

Picturing the Past: Illustrated Histories and the American Imagination, 1840-1900

Gregory M. Pfitzer

Places of Invention book cover

Places of Invention

Arthur P. Molella, Anna Karvellas (Editors)

Politics and Portraits in the United States and France during the Age of Revolution book cover

Politics & Portraits in the United States & France during the Age of Revolution

T. Lawrence Larkin

Raramuri Souls: Knowledge and Social Process in Northern Mexico (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry) book cover

Raramuri Souls: Knowledge and Social Process in Northern Mexico (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry)

William L. Merrill

Sara Tyson Hallowell: Pioneer Curator and Art Advisor in the Gilded Age book cover

Sara Tyson Hallowell: Pioneer Curator and Art Advisor in the Gilded Age

Carolyn Kinder Carr

Sweet Stuff: An American History of Sweeteners from Sugar to Sucralose book cover

Sweet Stuff: An American History of Sweeteners from Sugar to Sucralose

Deborah Jean Warner

The Extermination of American Bison book cover

The Extermination of American Bison

William Temple Hornaday

The GH Kaestlin Collection of Imperial Russian and Zemstvo Stamps book cover

The GH Kaestlin Collection of Imperial Russian and Zemstvo Stamps

Thomas Lera, Leon Finik

The Tenth Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposium: World War I and Its Immediate Aftermath, Select Papers book cover

The Tenth Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposium: World War I and Its Immediate Aftermath, Select Papers

The Value of Money book cover

The Value of Money

Ellen R. Feingold

The Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposia: Select Papers from the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Symposia book cover

The Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposia: Select Papers from the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Symposia

We'll Understand It Better By and By: Pioneering African American Gospel Composers (The

We’ll Understand It Better By and By: Pioneering African American Gospel Composers

Bernice Johnson Reagon

When the Circus Came to Town! An American Tradition in Photographs book cover

When the Circus Came to Town! An American Tradition in Photographs

Dawn Rogala, David Haberstich and Shannon Perich