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December 20, 2018
The APS recently acquired a small archive of papers of Abijah Chauncey Owen, a Westfield, Massachusetts, man who participated in the California Gold Rush. The...
December 18, 2018
The Jonathan Williams Papers are now digitized in their entirety and are available to view in our Digital Library. This collection of approximately 55 letters...
December 13, 2018
The Fall 2018 public lecture season was packed with events celebrating the Society's 275th anniversary. Many events were inspired by the Society's history or presented...
December 11, 2018
Whenever I have the opportunity, I take a moment to look through the book pictured above, even though I cannot understand a single word on...
December 6, 2018
One of the pleasures of re-arranging the oversize collection has been the discovery of drawings given to the APS in the 18th century. One of...
December 4, 2018
Bentley Glass (1906-2005, APS 1963), an American geneticist, took on many roles throughout his career: researcher, historian, editor, educator, and social advocate. As a researcher...
November 29, 2018
Each year, the Library at the American Philosophical Society hosts a rich intellectual community of scholars working on a wide-range of projects in fields including...
November 20, 2018
There is much that has already been written about “A map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto”...