APS Library
March 20, 2020
A small cache of items relating to Brigadier General Samuel Kosciusko Zook (1822-1863) was recently discovered in the Vaux Family Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.73). Few of the...
March 13, 2020
Archival collections do not spawn, fully processed, from the open lid of a Hollinger box. An archivist’s intercession is required to turn accessioned materials into...
March 5, 2020
By Anisha Gupta and Emily Margolis Advancing STEM education has been a priority for NASA, America’s civilian space agency, since its founding in 1958. Over...
February 28, 2020
Benjamin Rush had been a Member of the APS for six years when he met Thomas Paine. In 1774 Benjamin Rush was clearly a man...
February 21, 2020
Several weeks ago, I introduced you to Hampton L. Carson, a geneticist who donated his papers to the American Philosophical Society. We touched on his...
February 11, 2020
When I began researching for the upcoming exhibition, Dr. Franklin, Citizen Scientist, I admittedly knew relatively little about Benjamin Franklin’s wife, Deborah Read Franklin (d...
February 7, 2020
If you were a hip teenager in Soviet Russia in the 1960s, you’d have owned some Bone Music. Because rock music was banned and because...
January 30, 2020
This winter’s weather has been remarkably mild in Philadelphia, so it may be the perfect time to share an artifact in our Print Collection showing...