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December 12, 2023
Following a nation-wide search by a committee chaired by Sarah Thomas (APS 2013), who was most recently the Harvard University Librarian, the American Philosophical Society...
December 11, 2023
Header Image: 2023 Willman Spawn Conservation Intern Charlotte “Charly” Starnes puts the finishing touches on her treatment of a 1549 French copy of Aphorismi Hippocratis...
December 5, 2023
To mark the 250th anniversary of the Fairfax Resolves, a central document in the coming of the American Revolution co-authored by George Mason and George...
November 28, 2023
Inspired by the APS Museum’s upcoming exhibition Sketching Splendor: Natural History in America, 1750-1850 the American Philosophical Society is organizing a daylong conference that will...
November 27, 2023
The Library & Museum at the American Philosophical Society supports a diverse community of scholars working on a wide-range of projects in fields including early...
November 20, 2023
Last year, Ruth H. Matamoros was in residence at APS as a Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative (NASI) Predoctoral Fellow. Recently, she was interviewed...
November 13, 2023
Header Image: Plan of the River Thames from the Upper Forks to its entrance into Lake St Clair. 7 Nov 1795 Archives of Ontario In...
November 10, 2023
Much work is going on behind the scenes at the American Philosophical Society Press as it prepares for a relaunch. In particular, the journals programs...