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September 6, 2022
Revolutionary City: A Portal to the Nation’s Founding is live and being updated regularly. Accessible at https://therevolutionarycity.org/, the portal has undergone many iterations and updates...
August 29, 2022
In my first post about Petrus Ramus’s 1636 Via Regia ad Geometriam—a geometry textbook with warped, broken wooden boards and mold-eaten leaves—I described the innovative...
August 22, 2022
George Washington Corner (1889–1981) was an American physician, anatomist, endocrinologist, embryologist, historian, and author. He is best known for his contributions to reproductive science, especially...
August 15, 2022
Header image: “Appearance of a Steeped Vat,” T reatise on the Process and Manufacture of Fine Indigo, 1832. British Library. Most research projects seem to...
July 25, 2022
Header image: East Front Street, Nome Alaska, April 1909 Three photo albums recently came to the conservation lab, courtesy of two donors to the Society...
July 18, 2022
The Duhamel du Monceau/Fougeroux de Bondaroy Papers, currently held in the American Philosophical Society’s vault, include botanical drawings that are enjoyable to look at for...
June 27, 2022
We have a great group of 11 Summer Interns working on various projects at the APS over the next several weeks. Read below to learn...
June 21, 2022
Laura Chilton is the David Center for the American Revolution Project Cataloguer. Over the next two years, she will be cataloging not only David Library...