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Research Training Program
Research Training Program actively facilitates the education, training, and encouragement of the next generation of natural history researchers by hosting opportunities for students to explore natural history science, and pursue meaningful research projects with mentoring Smithsonian professionals in the biological, geological, and anthropological disciplines.
The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects
The Smithsonian Institution is America's largest, most important, and most beloved repository for the objects that define our common heritage. Now Under Secretary for Art, History, and Culture Richard Kurin, aided by a team of top Smithsonian curators and scholars, has assembled a literary exhibition of 101 objects from across the Smithsonian's museums that together offer a marvelous new perspective on the history of the United States. Ranging from the earliest years of the pre-Columbian continent to the digital age, and from the American Revolution to Vietnam, each entry pairs the fascinating history surrounding each object with the story of its creation or discovery and the place it has co...
A Living Exhibition
Since its founding in 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," the Smithsonian Institution has been an important feature of the American cultural landscape. In A Living Exhibition, William S. Walker examines the tangled history of cultural exhibition at the Smithsonian from its early years to the chartering of the National Museum of the American Indian in 1989. He tracks the transformation of the institution from its original ideal as a "universal museum" intended to present the totality of human experience to the variegated museum and research complex of today. Walker pays particular attention to the half century following World War II, when the Smithsonian significantly expanded...
Engaging Smithsonian Objects through Science, History, and the Arts
How do we come to know the world around us? What about worlds apart from our own—outer space, distant cultures, or even long-past eras of history? Engaging Smithsonian Objects through Science, History, and the Arts explores these questions and suggests an answer: we come to know our world and worlds apart through the objects that represent them. Objects are a window, and by looking through them we can learn and understand more about the people who made them and the time and place they came from. In the pursuit of this understanding museums are invaluable; they are repositories not just of things but also of past, present, and future knowledge. Engaging Smithsonian Objects puts these ideas ...
Places of Invention
The companion book to an upcoming museum exhibition of the same name, Places of Invention seeks to answer timely questions about the nature of invention and innovation: What is it about some places that sparks invention and innovation? Is it simply being at the right place at the right time, or is it more than that? How does “place”—whether physical, social, or cultural—support, constrain, and shape innovation? Why does invention flourish in one spot but struggle in another, even very similar location? In short: Why there? Why then? Places of Invention frames current and historic conversation on the relationship between place and creativity, citing extensive scholarship in the area a...
Make Good the Promises
The companion volume to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture exhibit, opening in September 2021 With a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Eric Foner and a preface by veteran museum director and historian Spencer Crew An incisive and illuminating analysis of the enduring legacy of the post-Civil War period known as Reconstruction—a comprehensive story of Black Americans’ struggle for human rights and dignity and the failure of the nation to fulfill its promises of freedom, citizenship, and justice. In the aftermath of the Civil War, millions of free and newly freed African Americans were determined to define themselves as equal c...
Discovering Dinosaurs
With over 100 new dinosaurs species discovered since 2012, Discovering Dinosaurs will make all earlier dino books EXTINCT! The most up-to-date illustrated dinosaur encyclopedia on the market! DISCOVERING DINOSAURS features spectacular illustrations of nearly 140 species, including all of the top dinosaur discoveries through 2015—written and illustrated by two of the world’s top dinosaur experts and artists. With a stunning oversized format that showcases Bob Walters' and Tess Kissinger’s award-winning illustrations, and a textured dinosaur-skin-like book cover, kids will not want to put the book down! Bob Walters is one of the world’s top paleoartists, with his work appearing in numerous books, magazine and journal articles, TV and films, and award-winning permanent murals in places like the Smithsonian, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Dinosaur National Monument, and others. He lives in Philadelphia. Tess Kissinger is an award-winning paleoartist, curator, writer and consultant who has worked with the History Channel, The Learning Channel, numerous museums, and the movie Jurassic Park 3. She lives in Philadelphia.
