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May 27, 2021
The American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum is excited to announce its 2021-2022 Fellowship recipients! This year, the Society has awarded eight long-term fellowships and...
May 25, 2021
While adding 5,000 engravings and prints of persons in the APS’s collections to our online catalog, the name of Jacob (Meyer) Philadelphia (1720/1735–1795) caught my...
May 20, 2021
Header image: Jean-Honoré Fragonard, L’Étude. Portrait of Anne-Louise Boyvin d’Hardancourt Brillon de Jouy (late 1760s). Musée du Louvre, Paris, France. In his fanciful, poignant essay...
May 14, 2021
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...
May 7, 2021
The American Philosophical Society is pleased to welcome new Members elected to the Society in 2021. Election to the American Philosophical Society honors extraordinary accomplishments...
May 7, 2021
The Caspar Wistar Papers are now digitized and available to view in the APS Digital Library. The entirety of the collection is presented in a...
April 30, 2021
Philadelphia [April 30, 2021] Thanks to a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through its Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions (FPIRI)...
April 29, 2021
When last I mentioned Joseph Priestley’s copy of John Blair’s Chronology and History of the World from Creation to the Year of Christ, 1788, the...