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June 21, 2019
It is hard to imagine that Benjamin Franklin did not hear stories about “the war” growing up. Not the American Revolution of course, but the...
June 5, 2019
The many manuscripts and notebooks at the APS Library produced by anthropologists studying Indigenous peoples are fundamentally based upon the knowledge and expertise of the...
May 15, 2019
In 2018, the American Philosophical Society (APS) celebrated its 275th anniversary. It is such a privilege and a treat to work at a place that...
May 7, 2019
In 2015—her hundredth year—Amelia Susman Schultz donated a portion of her papers to the American Philosophical Society, a small but important and unusual collection. They...
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...
December 11, 2018
Whenever I have the opportunity, I take a moment to look through the book pictured above, even though I cannot understand a single word on...
September 20, 2018
Header image: Evening sunshine outside the Iñupiat Heritage Center and adjoining Tuzzy Library, May 2017. By Holly Miowak Guise, History Ph.D. graduate Yale University, Digital...
September 6, 2018
CNAIR Stories: Watt Sam as Natchez Cherokee Collaborator Header image: Watt Sam on his Porch. Lantern Slide by John Reed Swanton. National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian...