50 DIY crafts, cooking, decorating, and gardening projects from the experts at the Smithsonian InstitutionThe Smithsonian Institution presents a uniquely curated collection of lively how-to projects and historical narratives of four realms of American domestic arts: cooking, crafts, decorating, and gardening. Perfect for hobbyists interested in the historical context of what they create for their homes, this beautifully illustrated book contains fifty DIY projects—from a uniquely Am...

Celebrate Halloween with the animals at the National Zoo in Washington, DC, in a fang-tastic board book created in collaboration with the Smithsonian.It’s Halloween time at the Zoo.The birds are ready with a BOO!What’s more fun than visiting animals? Visiting them at the spookiest time of year! Watch that red panda who looks ready to trick-or-treat. Here are the otters, doing silly tricks. And while some creatures might cause you to...

In collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, a sweeping history of food and culture that summons everyone to the table for a fresh look at the people, ingredients, events, and movements that have shaped how and what we eat in the United StatesThis exploration of the American table presents a fresh look at what and how we've fed ourselves, for sustenance and for pleasure, through the lens of location, immigration, ingenuity, innovation, and culture. Learn abou...

An inspiring and surprising celebration of U.S. women's history told through Smithsonian artifacts illustrating women's participation in science, art, music, sports, fashion, business, religion, entertainment, military, politics, activism, and more.This book offers a unique, panoramic look at women's history in the United States through the lens of ordinary objects from, by, and for extraordinary women. Featuring more than 280 artifacts from 16 Smithsonian museums ...

Smithsonian Civil War is a lavishly illustrated coffee-table book featuring 150 entries in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. From among tens of thousands of Civil War objects in the Smithsonian's collections, curators handpicked 550 items and wrote a unique narrative that begins before the war through the Reconstruction period. The perfect gift book for fathers and history lovers, Smithsonian Civil War combines one-of-a-kind, famous, and previously unseen r...

Oooh! Discover some impossibly cute baby animals at the National Zoo in Washington, DC, in a fun photographic board book created in collaboration with the Smithsonian.What’s more fun than watching animals? Watching baby animals! Bear cubs frolic together on a bright spring day. Sweet seal pups snuggle up to their mamas. And cheetah cubs love to lounge peacefully in the grass. With a rhyming text, photos of favorite animals, and doodles and drawings by Lala...

The go-to guide for visitors who want to maximize their experience at the Smithsonian’s 19 museums and National ZooThe Smithsonian holds more than 155 million artifacts and specimens in its trust. The Official Guide to the Smithsonian makes navigating the world’s largest museum complex more efficient and fulfilling. Featuring a huge amount of history, highlights, and pertinent museum information, the colorful guide is designed to enrich time spent in the S...

Who was the first person to dine in space? How long was the Wright brothers's first successful flight? What famous aircraft was named after a grape-flavored soft drink? What toy based on an animated film accompanied astronauts on a shuttle mission in 2000? These questions and many more are answered in The Smithsonian Book of Air & Space Trivia. In addition to the canon of space and aviation information, the pages are illustrated with more than 125 objects from the Smithsonian Nati...

Which president holds the record for the most vetoes? Which president had the largest shoe size? Who was the only president to serve in both World War I and World War II? Who was the tallest president? These questions and many, many more are answered in The Smithsonian Book of Presidential Trivia, which has been fully updated to 2026 to include trivia question and answers about every US president to date.Divided into 11 chapters, The Smithsonian Book o...

Art in Shell of the Ancient AmericansThe student will find scattered throughout a wide range of archæologic literature frequent but casual mention of works of art in shell. Individual uses of shell have been dwelt upon at considerable length by a few authors, but up to this time no one has undertaken the task of bringing together in one view the works of primitive man in this material.Works of ancient peoples in stone, clay, and bronze, in all countries, ha...

Discover the most incredible man-made wonders, from Stonehenge to Burj Khalifa, with this unparalleled catalog of the most famous and intriguing buildings and monuments created by humans.Manmade Wonders of the World features a range of structures from buildings to monuments, statues, and bridges, including the Golden Gate Bridge and Hoover Dam.It opens with a foreword by Dan Cruickshank and then takes the reader on a continent-by-continent...

Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park : Cliff Palace In his excellent work on the ruins of the Mesa Verde, Baron Nordenskiöld speaks of calcined human bones being found in a stone cist at Step House, and Mr. Wetherill is referred to as having observed evidence of cremation elsewhere among the Mesa Verde cliff-dwellings. There can be no doubt from the observations made in the refuse heaps at Cliff Palace that the inhabitants of this village not only burned the...