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September 9, 2024
Many hands and many minds contributed to Mark Catesby’s The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands and William Bartram’s Travels through North...
September 3, 2024
Header Image: The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands , vol 1, Mark Catesby, 1771, London, 1771 (3rd edition). APS. A picture...
August 26, 2024
The Library & Museum at the American Philosophical Society supports a diverse community of scholars working on a wide-range of projects in fields including early...
August 20, 2024
Philadelphia [August 20, 2024]—The American Philosophical Society is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Patrick Spero as the Society’s next Chief Executive Officer. Dr...
August 19, 2024
Header Image: Anne Louise Germaine Necker, Baroness of Staël-Holstein (known as Madame de Staël) c.1815-7, by Joseph Bouton. Royal Collection Trust . Anne Louise Germaine...
August 14, 2024
The APS is older than the concept of an expert, but it has always championed expertise. In the Society’s antecedent—Benjamin Franklin’s lively Junto Club—highly-knowledgeable, self-educated...
August 9, 2024
On November 16th and 17th of 1945, a little over three months after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the American Philosophical Society and the...
August 5, 2024
Header Image: Edward Shippen to Joseph Shippen, 26 September 1763, Edward Shippen letters and papers, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In September 1763, Edward Shippen...