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April 17, 2023
As part of programming inspired by its 2023 exhibition Pursuit and Persistence: 300 Years of Women in Science, the American Philosophical Society is organizing an...
April 10, 2023
Header image: Part of the David Library book collection residing at its new home at the APS Library Histories can be considered as living records...
April 3, 2023
Header image: Banded Mongoose, Plate 5, from John Edward Gray, Gleanings from the Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley Hall (1846-1850), Biodiversity Heritage Library. Edward Smith-Stanley...
March 30, 2023
The American Philosophical Society will cap off Women’s History Month with a new exhibition celebrating path-breaking work by women in science. Opening March 31, Pursuit...
March 27, 2023
Header Image: “Bas-Relief with Portrait of Emma Diruff Seiler, 1891. APS.”] There is little doubt that Emma Diruff Seiler, one of the first female Members...
March 20, 2023
“Florence Sabin and women educators at Barnard. Florence Rena Sabin Papers, Mss.B.SA12, LH-B-33. APS.” When I was in third grade, I joined an afterschool program...
March 13, 2023
One of the perks of working at the APS’s Library & Museum is that you never know what you are going to find. While reprocessing...
March 3, 2023
The Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) is pleased to announce the launch of Visualizing Women in Science. This project provides a new means of exploring...