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January 10, 2024
The American Philosophical Society Press is pleased to announce Learned Lives, a series of short biographies designed to narrate, examine, and showcase the lives and...
January 8, 2024
Another great exhibition season at the American Philosophical Society Museum has come to a close. Over 65,000 walk-in visitors from around the world were able...
January 2, 2024
Header Image: John Dickinson. James Smither, "The Patriotic American Farmer" (1768). Library Company of Philadelphia. Through The Revolutionary City project, the John Dickinson papers held...
December 12, 2023
Following a nation-wide search by a committee chaired by Sarah Thomas (APS 2013), who was most recently the Harvard University Librarian, the American Philosophical Society...
December 11, 2023
Header Image: 2023 Willman Spawn Conservation Intern Charlotte “Charly” Starnes puts the finishing touches on her treatment of a 1549 French copy of Aphorismi Hippocratis...
December 5, 2023
To mark the 250th anniversary of the Fairfax Resolves, a central document in the coming of the American Revolution co-authored by George Mason and George...
November 28, 2023
Inspired by the APS Museum’s upcoming exhibition Sketching Splendor: Natural History in America, 1750-1850 the American Philosophical Society is organizing a daylong conference that will...
November 27, 2023
The Library & Museum at the American Philosophical Society supports a diverse community of scholars working on a wide-range of projects in fields including early...