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American Philosophical Society
This blog post originally appeared in the 2020 Issue of the American Philosophical Society News, which you can find here. Members and staff at the...
Michael Madeja
Many in the museum field have created virtual tours of exhibitions. The APS was delighted to receive funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities...
Janine Boldt
When the pandemic forced the American Philosophical Society (APS) to close, our upcoming exhibition, Dr. Franklin, Citizen Scientist, was on the verge of installation. Thanks...
Julie Fisher
In July of 2020 with support from an NEH CARES Grant, I began the work of transcribing the early meeting minutes of the American Philosophical...
Valerie-Anne Lutz
Few people, even among APS staff, know about Laura E. Hanson, Librarian of the American Philosophical Society from 1926 to 1941. Hanson was not only...
Jeffery Appelhans
“I cannot live without books,” Jefferson wrote his unlikely friend John Adams (APS 1780). Jefferson was thanking Adams for introducing him to George Ticknor and...
Tracey deJong
Meet Atta cephalotes, also known as a fungus culturing ant. You can find many images of her family of leaf cutters and fungus garden builders...
Marian Christ
The Library of the American Philosophical Society acquired, in 1975, Mechanism of the Heavens, a translation by Mary Somerville of Pierre-Simon Laplace’s Traité de mécanique...