APS Library

Susan Anderson
My first collection to process at the American Philosophical Society is the Hampton L. Carson Papers. A pioneering geneticist and evolutionary biologist, Carson worked with...
Brian Carpenter
The APS Library & Museum’s Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR) is very glad to announce the completion of a substantial new resource...
American Philosophical Society
By David Dunning, PhD Candidate, Princeton University 2019-2020 Leon and Joanne V.C. Knopoff Fellow During his one-month residential research fellowship held during June 2019, Dunning...
American Philosophical Society
APS offices, the Library reading room, and the Museum gallery will be closed on select dates in November and December 2019. November Holiday Hours APS...
American Philosophical Society
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...
Valerie-Anne Lutz
Melanie Rinehart joined the APS in May after two years of processing the Time, Inc. records at the New York Historical Society. During her interviews...
American Philosophical Society
By Rosemarie Fettig, Bryn Mawr College 2019 Curatorial Research Intern The following blog post is adapted from a presentation given as part of the APS...
Tracey deJong
While working in the oversize collection, I came upon a drawing (pictured above) without a call number to connect it to its collection or accession...