Smithsonian Magazine's Best Scholarly Books

Given by Smithsonian Magazine

39 Works 12,157 Books 481 Reviews 4.2
Years:
All, 2022 (13), 2021 (25), 2020 (1)
WorkYear
The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities by Peter S. Alagona
2022
Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen
2022
Winslow Homer: American Passage by William R. Cross
2022
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
2022
I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir by Harvey Fierstein
2022
Culture Work: Folklore for the Public Good by Tim Frandy
2022
Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club by Kimberli Gant
2022
Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
2022
Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality by Tanya Katerí Hernández
2022
The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century by Peniel E. Joseph
2022
Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State (Volume 63) (American Crossroads) by Moon-Ho Jung
2022
Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America by Megan Kate Nelson
2022
Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now by Jeff Yang
2022
Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
2021
Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer
2021
From Football to Soccer: The Early History of the Beautiful Game in the United States (Sport and Society) by Brian D. Bunk
2021
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience by Tarana Burke
2021
Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo: A Story in English and Spanish by Sandra Cisneros
2021
The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915 by Jon Grinspan
2021
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
2021
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson
2021
Beyond the betrayal : the memoir of a World War II Japanese American draft resister of conscience by Yosh Kuromiya
2021
Pollution Is Colonialism by Max Liboiron
2021
What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies by Timothy Lloyd
2021
The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us by Meg Lowman
2021
On time and water by Andri Snær Magnason
2021
Dear Science and Other Stories (Errantries) by Katherine McKittrick
2021
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles
2021
Not Yo' Butterfly (American Crossroads) (Volume 60) by Miyamoto
2021
We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans and Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff
2021
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside by Nick Offerman
2021
Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest by Laura Raicovich
2021
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America by Joshua D. Rothman
2021
The Fires of Philadelphia: Citizen-Soldiers, Nativists, and the 1844 Riots Over the Soul of a Nation by Zachary M. Schrag
2021
Science Denial: Why It Happens and What to Do About It by Gale M. Sinatra
2021
Nonviolence Before King: The Politics of Being and the Black Freedom Struggle by Anthony C. Siracusa
2021
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery across America by Clint Smith
2021
Inter State: Essays from California by Jose Vadi
2021
Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Nicole R. Fleetwood
2020

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