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May 13, 2024
In my last post, I talked about APS Press’s effort to catalog and digitize our entire backlist, with the help of our partners at University...
May 13, 2024
Starting in October 2023, the American Philosophical Society (APS) began a transcription program to transcribe documents included in the digital portal, The Revolutionary City: A...
May 6, 2024
In the APS Conservation Department, winter is museum time. We check the items from the APS Library that were exhibited in the previous year, and...
May 1, 2024
The American Philosophical Society and the Library Company of Philadelphia, two eminent institutions based in Philadelphia, were founded by Benjamin Franklin to improve society through...
April 29, 2024
Oliver Evans engraving, APS Print Collection: Persons (EY 12.02). APS. Oliver Evans (1755-1819) was born in Delaware, and became a prolific inventor. One of his...
April 22, 2024
Portrait of Sara Yorke Stevenson by Leopold Seyffert presented to the University Museum in 1917 in honor of her 70th birthday. Courtesy of the University...
April 15, 2024
Historians of Britain, Ireland, and early America have approached the imperial crisis of the late 18th century from a number of angles, seeking to diagnose...
April 8, 2024
Header Image: Katharine Way, undated. Photo courtesy of Physics Today . When I was first asked whether I could contribute something original to the story...