Author: Samuel J. Redman

A Smithsonian Top History Book of the YearA Nature Book of the Year“How did our museums become great storehouses of human remains? What have we lea...

Celebrates the resilience of American cultural institutions in the face of national crises and challenges On an afternoon in January 1865, a roarin...

A Smithsonian Book of the YearA Nature Book of the Year“Provides much-needed foundation of the relationship between museums and Native Americans.”—...

A searching account of nineteenth-century salvage anthropology, an effort to preserve the culture of “vanishing” Indigenous peoples through disposs...