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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...
November 3, 2023
I utilize the Sahaptin Language Field notes in the APS archives for language reclamation with the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Language Program...
October 30, 2023
Portrait of Edwin Grant Conklin by Cameron Burnside, 1941. APS Museum Collections . One of the fascinating things about working with archives is finding documents...