APS Library
May 13, 2020
There are few things as tantalizing to the imagination as finding a mysterious object in an archival collection, especially one that's already full of more...
May 7, 2020
American scientist and cytogeneticist Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) was a pioneer in genetics research in the early 20th century, a time when few women worked in...
May 1, 2020
Throughout May, the APS Library & Museum Programming division (often internally referred to as “LAMP”) will be doing a social media takeover of the Society’s...
![Rittera pinnata, Plate 7, José Francisco Correia da Serra, Vues carpologiques, [Paris : Museum d'histoire naturelle, 1807], American Philosophical Society Library & Museum, Pamphlets on botany, 580 Pam. v.5, no.3](/sites/default/files/styles/blog_listing/public/2020-04/Priest%20Blog_001.jpg?h=9c610f2b&itok=iQBAhgTj)
April 30, 2020
In June of 1813, Thomas Jefferson, then President of the American Philosophical Society, wrote to APS Vice-President Caspar Wistar: “I found him what you had...
April 23, 2020
A researcher interested in the Whiskey Rebellion of 1795 recently shed new light on this remarkable, yet undated, petition. Over the years, this petition has...
April 16, 2020
By Janine Yorimoto Boldt and Emily A. Margolis While doing research on Mesmerism (also called animal magnetism) for the exhibition Dr. Franklin, Citizen Scientist, we...
April 8, 2020
The Library at the American Philosophical Society supports a diverse community of scholars working on a wide-range of projects in fields including early American history...
April 3, 2020
Willman Spawn Conservation Intern Joanna Hurd spent only two weeks at the American Philosophical Society before the novel coronavirus sent everyone home, but in that...