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December 5, 2022
Weather affects our everyday lives. That sentiment may sound familiar for two reasons: 1.) It’s true and 2.) These were the starting words of my...
November 28, 2022
Header image: A medallion with a profile portrait of Benjamin Franklin made in 1777 while he was a diplomat in France. APS.] For me, the...
November 22, 2022
Inspired by its 2023 exhibition Women in Science, the American Philosophical Society is organizing two international conferences that will explore the history of women in...
November 21, 2022
The Ivan Sanderson Papers hold an amazing array of archival material, covering topics from natural history to radio and television programming to cryptozoology. Sanderson was...
November 14, 2022
An outdated Siouan language family tree (APS Mary R. Haas Papers, Series 2, Box 23). My dissertation investigates the linguistic history of the Siouan-Catawban language...
November 4, 2022
Before I began my internship, I knew I wanted to conduct research about Elsie Clews Parsons, a notorious anthropologist who conducted research in my Pueblo...
October 28, 2022
Love it or hate it, pumpkin beer’s appearance on drink menus is a perennial sign that fall has arrived. Today’s pumpkin beers are usually brewed...
October 24, 2022
Header Image: Image of Gerty Cori in 1949: Alfred Eisenstadt/ The LIFE Picture Collections/ Getty Images. Gerty Theresa Cori (née) Radnitz, an Austro-Hungarian and American...