APS Library
April 11, 2022
In a previous blog post, I drew attention to newly described African materials in the American Council of Learned Societies on Native American Languages (ACLS)...
April 4, 2022
Prior to the 1854 Act of Consolidation, which incorporated several districts in Philadelphia County into the City of Philadelphia, Northern Liberties was its own district...
March 28, 2022
One day this past winter, I opened a large cardboard box containing elegant scientific instruments: objectives, or magnifiers, which were contained in their own smaller...
March 21, 2022
Header image: Interior view of EBR-1, the experimental reactor mentioned in the May, 1956 edition of Nucleonics. The four lightbulbs are being powered by the...
March 13, 2022
Benjamin Smith Barton (1766-1815) was an early member of the American Philosophical Society (APS), who distinguished himself in many ways. He wrote the first botany...
March 8, 2022
NEH Grant to American Philosophical Society and the Library Company of Philadelphia Supports Early Career Scholars and Revolutionary Portal Leading Up to America’s 250th Philadelphia...
March 7, 2022
In the early decades of the 20th century, many anthropologists whose archival collections are housed at the APS’s Library & Museum used maps to try...
February 28, 2022
Those who know the organization and the staff, know the APS can be full of fun. From goofy chats with coworkers to UFO coloring books...