David Center for the American Revolution
July 9, 2024
The Concord Museum, the David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society, and the Massachusetts Historical Society will hold a conference on...
June 3, 2024
The American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum is excited to announce its 2024-2025 fellowship recipients! This year, the Society has awarded eight long-term fellowships and...
April 15, 2024
Historians of Britain, Ireland, and early America have approached the imperial crisis of the late 18th century from a number of angles, seeking to diagnose...
March 11, 2024
Self portrait of the artist, 1892 Objects of intrigue and mystery will often present themselves on the cataloger’s desk, the most recent one being a...
January 16, 2024
In the David Center for the American Revolution’s microfilm holdings at the American Philosophical Society, there is a memorandum book of military intelligence gathered by...
January 2, 2024
Header Image: John Dickinson. James Smither, "The Patriotic American Farmer" (1768). Library Company of Philadelphia. Through The Revolutionary City project, the John Dickinson papers held...
December 5, 2023
To mark the 250th anniversary of the Fairfax Resolves, a central document in the coming of the American Revolution co-authored by George Mason and George...
October 16, 2023
Header Image: Bank of Pennsylvania, South Second Street, Philadelphia , William Russell Birch, 1804. Print engraving. American Philosophical Society (APS). While banking was new in...