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American Philosophical Society
Inspired by the APS Museum’s upcoming exhibition Sketching Splendor: Natural History in America, 1750-1850 the American Philosophical Society is organizing a daylong conference that will...
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American Philosophical Society
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...
Ruth H. Matamoros Mercado
Last year, Ruth H. Matamoros was in residence at APS as a Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative (NASI) Predoctoral Fellow. Recently, she was interviewed...
Ian McCallum
Header Image: Plan of the River Thames from the Upper Forks to its entrance into Lake St Clair. 7 Nov 1795 Archives of Ontario In...
Keyen Singer
I utilize the Sahaptin Language Field notes in the APS archives for language reclamation with the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Language Program...
Susan Anderson
Portrait of Edwin Grant Conklin by Cameron Burnside, 1941. APS Museum Collections . One of the fascinating things about working with archives is finding documents...
Keith Pluymers
In a note attached to his 1771 meteorological observations , the New England Reverend Samuel Williams outlined his vision for American meteorology: If we had...
Louis Bissieres
Header Image: Bank of Pennsylvania, South Second Street, Philadelphia , William Russell Birch, 1804. Print engraving. American Philosophical Society (APS). While banking was new in...