APS Library
October 28, 2020
The Library of the American Philosophical Society acquired, in 1975, Mechanism of the Heavens, a translation by Mary Somerville of Pierre-Simon Laplace’s Traité de mécanique...
October 21, 2020
In historical research, silences in the archive are practically guaranteed. A historical document may not provide the researcher with the evidence she or he hoped...
October 21, 2020
At the time of the Revolutionary War, political allegiance became one of the most important points of identification for a colonist: would one stay loyal...
October 21, 2020
The Maryland Loyalism Project is a new digital archive and biographical database of women and men from the Maryland colony who remained loyal to Britain...
October 15, 2020
More than two years ago, postdoctoral fellows at the Library & Museum of the American Philosophical Society began what figures to be a signature product...
October 14, 2020
Inspired by its 2021 exhibition Dr. Franklin, Citizen Scientist, the American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum is organizing a symposium that explores citizen science as...
October 7, 2020
Sometimes a project arrives in the conservation lab as a mystery. It might be damaged, so in order for the cataloguers and librarians to safely...
September 29, 2020
This summer I spent my time as an Experiential Fellow with the Center for Digital Scholarship cleaning and organizing James Madison’s meteorological dataset for the...