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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...
April 23, 2021
In my previous blog post on processing the papers of physicist Richard Garwin, I focused on the correspondence series, consisting of both Garwin’s IBM files...
April 15, 2021
Last spring, as part of the Open Data Initiative at the Center for Digital Scholarship, I worked with some of Philadelphia’s earliest, and possibly one...
April 8, 2021
Edgar Allen Poe called him: “one of the finest writers, one of the most accomplished scholars, and when not in too great a hurry, one...
March 31, 2021
Two newly digitized letters from the Julia Rush Letters, 1776-1809 were recently added to the American Philosophical Society’s digital library. As functionality and design testing...