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January 17, 2023
Header image: Portrait of Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. by Jon R. Friedman, 2005. In previous blogs, I’ve explored the phenomena of getting to know someone...
January 9, 2023
I wanted to share a tool with you that I have found invaluable in processing the Vaux Family Papers (Ms.Coll.73). The Vaux family is a...
December 19, 2022
Two previous blog posts by Anisha Gupta and myself shared the problems with iron gall ink, which was used for almost all the manuscripts in...
November 28, 2022
Header image: A medallion with a profile portrait of Benjamin Franklin made in 1777 while he was a diplomat in France. APS.] For me, the...
November 22, 2022
Inspired by its 2023 exhibition Women in Science, the American Philosophical Society is organizing two international conferences that will explore the history of women in...
November 21, 2022
The Ivan Sanderson Papers hold an amazing array of archival material, covering topics from natural history to radio and television programming to cryptozoology. Sanderson was...
November 14, 2022
An outdated Siouan language family tree (APS Mary R. Haas Papers, Series 2, Box 23). My dissertation investigates the linguistic history of the Siouan-Catawban language...
November 4, 2022
Before I began my internship, I knew I wanted to conduct research about Elsie Clews Parsons, a notorious anthropologist who conducted research in my Pueblo...