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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...
May 28, 2024
The Library & Museum at the American Philosophical Society supports a diverse community of scholars working on a wide-range of projects in fields including early...
May 20, 2024
The American Philosophical Society is pleased to welcome new Members elected to the Society in 2024. Election to the American Philosophical Society honors extraordinary accomplishments...
May 20, 2024
The American Philosophical Society Press is pleased to announce a series of brief, essay-like books, Disciplines & Discontinuities, to tell the stories of how scholarly...
May 13, 2024
In my last post, I talked about APS Press’s effort to catalog and digitize our entire backlist, with the help of our partners at University...
May 13, 2024
Starting in October 2023, the American Philosophical Society (APS) began a transcription program to transcribe documents included in the digital portal, The Revolutionary City: A...
May 6, 2024
In the APS Conservation Department, winter is museum time. We check the items from the APS Library that were exhibited in the previous year, and...
May 1, 2024
The American Philosophical Society and the Library Company of Philadelphia, two eminent institutions based in Philadelphia, were founded by Benjamin Franklin to improve society through...