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Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 1: Introduction
Airlines of the Jet Age
This book provides the first comprehensive history of the world airline industry from the early 1960s to the present day. It begins with the advent of jet airliners, covers the …
Early Inuit Studies
This collection of 15 chronologically arranged papers is the first-ever definitive treatment of the intellectual history of Eskimology—known today as Inuit studies—the field of …
The Enterprise of Flight
The Enterprise of Flight is a highly praised contribution to the literature on American aviation and space exploration history. In a new introduction for this paperback edition, …
Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 5
The Handbook of North American Indians is a 20-volume encyclopedia summarizing knowledge about all Native peoples north of Mesoamerica, including cultures, languages, history, …
Picturing Poverty
Working for the government's Farm Security Administration in the 1930s, photographers set out across the country to capture the human face of the Depression. Walker Evans' …
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.: American
The first black to graduate from West Point in the twentieth century, Davis led the all-black Tuskeegee Airmen in World War II and retired a three-star general. His autobiography …
Sweet Stuff
The average American today consumes some 150 pounds of sugars, plus substantial amounts of artificial sweeteners, each year. How this came to be and how sweeteners have affected …
Only the Wing
In the late 1920s, Reimar Horten started experimenting with flying models equipped with fuselages, stabilizers, rudders, and elevators, but his life's work involved systematically …
Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics
Because of its unique geographic and temporal position, the La Venta badlands in central Columbia hold special significance for understanding the evolution of vertebrate faunas in …
Many Voices, One Nation
Many Voices, One Nation explores U.S. history through a powerful collection of artifacts and stories from America's many peoples. Sixteen essays, composed by Smithsonian curators …
Longhorned Woodboring Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae and Disteniidae)
In terms of quantity and breadth, the Smithsonian Institution s collection of longhorned woodboring beetles is one of the most important in the world. The effort to establish and …