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March 12, 2020
Updated January 11, 2022 Dear APS Members, Friends, Researchers, and Visitors, In an effort to safeguard the health and safety of members of the APS...
March 5, 2020
By Anisha Gupta and Emily Margolis Advancing STEM education has been a priority for NASA, America’s civilian space agency, since its founding in 1958. Over...
February 28, 2020
Benjamin Rush had been a Member of the APS for six years when he met Thomas Paine. In 1774 Benjamin Rush was clearly a man...
February 21, 2020
Several weeks ago, I introduced you to Hampton L. Carson, a geneticist who donated his papers to the American Philosophical Society. We touched on his...
February 11, 2020
When I began researching for the upcoming exhibition, Dr. Franklin, Citizen Scientist, I admittedly knew relatively little about Benjamin Franklin’s wife, Deborah Read Franklin (d...
February 7, 2020
If you were a hip teenager in Soviet Russia in the 1960s, you’d have owned some Bone Music. Because rock music was banned and because...
February 3, 2020
Building on the collaborative, community-engaged work of the American Philosophical Society’s Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR), the APS Library & Museum launched...
January 30, 2020
This winter’s weather has been remarkably mild in Philadelphia, so it may be the perfect time to share an artifact in our Print Collection showing...