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February 25, 2019
Applications are still open until March 15th for our Digital Knowledge Sharing (DKS) fellowships, part of the APS's Native American Scholars Initiative (NASI). Digital Knowledge...
February 21, 2019
Preserved between the pages of a pamphlet in the APS Library is a small yellow butterfly, which may have been placed there over 200 years...
February 19, 2019
Early membership lists make it clear that women were almost entirely excluded from the American Philosophical Society during its first century of existence. The Society’s...
February 14, 2019
The American Philosophical Society’s archive ( Series VII.2.e) holds an astounding record of nearly 140 years of reading by Members of the Society from 1802-1941...
February 12, 2019
Header image: Georges de Bois St. Lys, Plan de la Ville, des Rades et des Environs du Port au Prince, ca.1800. Ink on paper. APS...
February 5, 2019
One of the joys of manuscript processing is discovering the unexpected. In the Vaux Family Papers, a collection of papers relating to a family of...
January 29, 2019
Paper conservation treatment can range from cleaning soot off an old map to mending tears in a letter to putting a print in a water...
January 23, 2019
The fourth episode of the APS Podcast series—Great Talks at the APS—is now available! Tune in for a conversation between Patrick and Dr. Douglas Massey...