APS Library
March 9, 2018
The Francis John Worsley Roughton Papers and the Britton Chance Papers will be forever linked as professor and student for their innovative development of the...
February 28, 2018
Inside the vault of the American Philosophical Society, almost hidden in the back corner sits a single box with the papers of Richard Price, 1767-1790...
February 22, 2018
In a letter to colleague John Shepherd in 1997, the linguist, anthropologist and folklorist Dell Hymes wrote: “At the risk of overloading someone who is...
February 20, 2018
In commemoration of the American Philosophical Society’s 275 th anniversary, the Society’s Library, along with the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and the Association of Research...
February 13, 2018
The American Philosophical Society’s book collecting was slow for the first sixty years of its existence with only a few hundred volumes adorning its shelves...
February 6, 2018
It is not often that current events enter into rare materials cataloguing. It is even rarer that sporting events make their way into the APS...
February 2, 2018
For my inaugural blog post as the conservation lab intern, I’m going to explain how we teach paper to swim. You heard me right. Paper...
January 23, 2018
One of the most important Indigenous community partners of the American Philosophical Society’s Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR) is the Deyohahá:ge: Indigenous...