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No stopping us now the adventures of older women in American history Gail Collins

Author:
Collins, Gail  Search this
Physical description:
vii, 422 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations 25 cm
Type:
Books
History
Place:
United States
Date:
2019
Topic:
Older women--History  Search this
Older women--Social conditions  Search this
Older women--Social life and customs  Search this
Older women  Search this
Elderly women  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1114378

Bikes and bloomers : Victorian women inventors and their extraordinary cycle wear / Kat Jungnickel

Author:
Jungnickel, Katrina  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 323 pages ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
History
Place:
Great Britain
Date:
2018
19th century
Topic:
Women cyclists--Clothing--History  Search this
Women's clothing--History  Search this
Cycling--Social aspects--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1104617

The Oxford handbook of disability history / edited by Michael Rembis, Catherine Kudlick, and Kim E. Nielsen

Title:
Disability history
Editor:
Rembis, Michael A. 1970-  Search this
Kudlick, Catherine Jean  Search this
Nielsen, Kim E.  Search this
Physical description:
xiv, 535 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Type:
Handbooks, manuals, etc
Handbooks and manuals
History
Date:
2018
Topic:
Disabilities--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1097404

The Needle arts : a social history of American needlework

Author:
Time-Life Books  Search this
Physical description:
175 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1990
[©1990]
Topic:
Needlework  Search this
Decorative arts, Early American  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1073944

Dance floor democracy : the social geography of memory at the Hollywood Canteen / Sherrie Tucker

Author:
Tucker, Sherrie 1957-  Search this
Subject:
Hollywood Canteen  Search this
Physical description:
xxiv, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
History
Place:
United States
California
Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Date:
2014
20th century
Topic:
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects  Search this
Memory--Social aspects  Search this
Dance--Social aspects--History  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1081201

Max Eastman : a life / Christoph Irmscher

Author:
Irmscher, Christoph  Search this
Subject:
Eastman, Max 1883-1969  Search this
Physical description:
434 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Type:
Biography
Biographies
History
Place:
United States
Date:
2017
20th century
Topic:
Authors, American  Search this
Editors  Search this
Socialism--History  Search this
Communism--History  Search this
Radicalism--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1082354

A social history of the German book trade in America to the Civil War / Robert E. Cazden

Author:
Cazden, Robert E (Robert Edgar) 1930-2002  Search this
Physical description:
xvii, 801 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1984
C1984
Topic:
German imprints--History  Search this
German imprints--Publishing--History  Search this
Book industries and trade--Social aspects--History  Search this
Publishers and publishing--Social aspects--History  Search this
German Americans--Books and reading--History  Search this
Booksellers and bookselling--History  Search this
Call number:
Z479.C39 1984X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_230940

Social History and Industrial Classification (SHIC) : a subject classification for museum collections

Author:
SHIC Working Party  Search this
Physical description:
2 v. ; 30 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1983
Topic:
Museum registration methods  Search this
Subject headings--Industrialization  Search this
Subject headings--Industries  Search this
Call number:
AM139 .S67
AM139.S67
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_208058

Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet / Claire L. Evans

Author:
Evans, Claire Lisa  Search this
Physical description:
278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Type:
Biography
Biographies
History
Date:
2018
Topic:
Women computer scientists  Search this
Internet--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1096963

Bloomer girls : women baseball pioneers / Debra A. Shattuck

Author:
Shattuck, Debra A.  Search this
Physical description:
xiii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
United States
Date:
2017
Topic:
Women baseball players  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1076410

Curating America : journeys through storyscapes of the American past / Richard Rabinowitz ; with illustrations by Richard T. Hoyen

Author:
Rabinowitz, Richard  Search this
Physical description:
382 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
History
Place:
United States
Date:
2016
20th century
21st century
Topic:
Public history--History  Search this
Museums--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1076775

Four parts, no waiting : a social history of American barbershop quartet / Gage Averill

Title:
Social history of American barbershop quartet
Author:
Averill, Gage  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 234 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Place:
United States
Date:
2010
Topic:
Barbershop singing--History and criticism  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1061198

Revolutionary sparks : freedom of expression in modern America / Margaret A. Blanchard

Author:
Blanchard, Margaret A  Search this
Physical description:
xiii, 572 pages ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
History
Place:
United States
Date:
1992
20th century
Topic:
Freedom of speech--History  Search this
Freedom of the press--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1066795

Nyabingi : the social history of an African divinity / by Jim Freedman

Author:
Freedman, Jim  Search this
Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale  Search this
Physical description:
119 p. : 3 maps ; 21 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Rwanda
Uganda
Date:
1984
Topic:
Religion  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Cults  Search this
Call number:
GN654.A4 T332 no. 115
GN654.A4T332 no. 115
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_302954

The value and valuation of natural science collections : proceedings of the international conference, Manchester, 1995 / edited by J.R. Nudds and C.W. Pettitt

Author:
Nudds, John R  Search this
Pettitt, C. W (Charles William)  Search this
Geological Society of London  Search this
Manchester Museum (University of Manchester)  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 276 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
Type:
Congresses
Date:
1997
Topic:
Natural history--Catalogs and collections  Search this
Call number:
QH61 .I58 1995
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_505323

Women writers in the United States : a timeline of literary, cultural, and social history / Cynthia J. Davis and Kathryn West

Author:
Davis, Cynthia J. 1964-  Search this
West, Kathryn 1962-  Search this
Physical description:
xvi, 488 p. ; 26 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1996
Topic:
American literature--Women authors--Chronology  Search this
Women and literature--Chronology  Search this
Women authors, American--Biography--Chronology  Search this
Women--Biography--Chronology  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_509371

Who built America? [computer file] : from the Centennial Celebration of 1876 to the Great War of 1914 / [Roy Rosenzweig, Steve Brier, and Josh Brown]

Author:
Rosenzweig, Roy  Search this
Brier, Stephen 1946-  Search this
Brown, Joshua 1949-  Search this
Voyager Company  Search this
American Social History Project  Search this
Physical description:
1 computer laser optical disc ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 user's guide (4 p. ; 18 cm.)
Type:
Computer files
Place:
United States
Date:
1994
C1994
1865-1921
Topic:
Working class--History--Computer-assisted instruction  Search this
History  Search this
Computer-assisted instruction  Search this
Call number:
mrdf 000135 1994
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_510148

The rise of the technocrats; a social history, by W. H. G. Armytage

Author:
Armytage, W. H. G  Search this
Physical description:
vii, 448 p. 23 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1965
[1965]
Topic:
Technology--History  Search this
Science--History  Search this
Technology and civilization  Search this
Industrial policy--History  Search this
Call number:
T18 .A74
T18.A74
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_29426

Air travel; a social history

Author:
Hudson, Kenneth  Search this
Physical description:
174 p. illus. 25 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1972
[1972]
Topic:
Aeronautics, Commercial--Passenger traffic  Search this
Air travel  Search this
Call number:
HE9787 .H8X
HE9787.H8X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_30186

The thirties in Vogue / Carolyn Hall ; foreword by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr

Author:
Hall, Carolyn 1950-  Search this
Physical description:
160 p. : ill. (some col.), 1 facsim., ports. ; 29 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1984
20th century
Topic:
Social history  Search this
Manners and customs--History  Search this
Civilization, Modern  Search this
Popular culture--History  Search this
Arts, Modern  Search this
Call number:
NX456 .H174 1984
NX456.H174 1984
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_265904

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