APS Library
June 12, 2023
Header Image: “It’s Not Over Yet: NO LNG,” 2019, by Roger Peet , APS Print collection. This item is one of many posters relating to...
June 5, 2023
The American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum is excited to announce its 2023-2024 Fellowship recipients! This year, the Society has awarded eight long-term fellowships, and...
May 22, 2023
Pike and printed by Nicholas King, [1811]. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress . In the summer of 2019, I walked through the American...
May 15, 2023
Herman Heine Goldstine (1913-2004) was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1979 and served as Executive Officer from 1984-1997. Prior to his...
May 8, 2023
As a historian of Early America and the Native Southeast, I applied for a Short Term David Center Fellowship at the American Philosophical Society to...
May 1, 2023
“Portrait of Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin, Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Dudley and Georgene Herschbach.” “Behind every great man stands an even greater woman,” is...
April 24, 2023
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1936 and called by some “the most prominent woman astronomer of all time.” She was...
April 17, 2023
Bust of Gouverneur Morris, 1792, by Jean Antoine Houdon The American Philosophical Society’s collection of Gouverneur Morris papers is a significant one. The opportunity to...