APS Press
September 23, 2024
Clyde Barker served as President of the APS from 2011 to 2017. This honor was the capstone to a brilliant career in medicine and hospital...
August 14, 2024
The APS is older than the concept of an expert, but it has always championed expertise. In the Society’s antecedent—Benjamin Franklin’s lively Junto Club—highly-knowledgeable, self-educated...
August 9, 2024
On November 16th and 17th of 1945, a little over three months after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the American Philosophical Society and the...
July 15, 2024
This August, the APS Press will be releasing Edward Duffield: Philadelphia Clockmaker, Citizen, Gentleman, 1730-1803, by Bob Frishman. The story of Edward Duffield’s life is...
June 11, 2024
When Peter Dougherty retired from the Princeton University Press, only to immediately take the helm at the APS Press, he promised to usher us into...
May 20, 2024
The American Philosophical Society Press is pleased to announce a series of brief, essay-like books, Disciplines & Discontinuities, to tell the stories of how scholarly...
May 13, 2024
In my last post, I talked about APS Press’s effort to catalog and digitize our entire backlist, with the help of our partners at University...
April 1, 2024
I began my Princeton University GradFUTURES Social Impact Fellowship at the American Philosophical Society Press with a clearly delineated task. Press Director Peter Dougherty had...