APS Library
February 5, 2019
One of the joys of manuscript processing is discovering the unexpected. In the Vaux Family Papers, a collection of papers relating to a family of...
January 29, 2019
Paper conservation treatment can range from cleaning soot off an old map to mending tears in a letter to putting a print in a water...
January 23, 2019
The fourth episode of the APS Podcast series—Great Talks at the APS—is now available! Tune in for a conversation between Patrick and Dr. Douglas Massey...
January 22, 2019
The American Philosophical Society Library invites scholars in all fields to submit paper proposals for an international and interdisciplinary conference investigating the power of maps...
January 17, 2019
In 1976, John Archibald Wheeler deposited his papers with the American Philosophical Society. Ten years later, James Wheeler officially presented the papers to the Society...
January 14, 2019
The APS Library is pleased to announce a one-year pilot program in the History of Science. The program encourages scholars to make greater use of...
January 8, 2019
When a December 28, 1774, issue of the Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser featuring Benjamin Franklin’s iconic “Unite or Die” political cartoon surfaced at a...
December 20, 2018
The APS recently acquired a small archive of papers of Abijah Chauncey Owen, a Westfield, Massachusetts, man who participated in the California Gold Rush. The...