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April 25, 2022
Word lists of Indigenous languages are a very common form of documentation among the APS’s archival collections. At first look, these lists seem like the...
April 18, 2022
The David Rittenhouse Papers are now digitized in their entirety and available to view in the APS’s Digital Library. The collection contains around 30 objects...
April 11, 2022
In a previous blog post, I drew attention to newly described African materials in the American Council of Learned Societies on Native American Languages (ACLS)...
April 6, 2022
“Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.” — Poor Richard’s Almanac for 1735 Open Fridays-Sundays April 8 through December 30, 2022, the new exhibition from the...
April 4, 2022
Prior to the 1854 Act of Consolidation, which incorporated several districts in Philadelphia County into the City of Philadelphia, Northern Liberties was its own district...
March 28, 2022
One day this past winter, I opened a large cardboard box containing elegant scientific instruments: objectives, or magnifiers, which were contained in their own smaller...
March 21, 2022
Header image: Interior view of EBR-1, the experimental reactor mentioned in the May, 1956 edition of Nucleonics. The four lightbulbs are being powered by the...
March 13, 2022
Benjamin Smith Barton (1766-1815) was an early member of the American Philosophical Society (APS), who distinguished himself in many ways. He wrote the first botany...