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November 20, 2020
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...
November 11, 2020
“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...
November 5, 2020
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...
October 28, 2020
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...
October 21, 2020
In historical research, silences in the archive are practically guaranteed. A historical document may not provide the researcher with the evidence she or he hoped...
October 21, 2020
At the time of the Revolutionary War, political allegiance became one of the most important points of identification for a colonist: would one stay loyal...
October 21, 2020
The Maryland Loyalism Project is a new digital archive and biographical database of women and men from the Maryland colony who remained loyal to Britain...
October 15, 2020
More than two years ago, postdoctoral fellows at the Library & Museum of the American Philosophical Society began what figures to be a signature product...