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Elinor Berger
Header Image: “Bas-Relief with Portrait of Emma Diruff Seiler, 1891. APS.”] There is little doubt that Emma Diruff Seiler, one of the first female Members...
Graziella C. Pierangeli
“Florence Sabin and women educators at Barnard. Florence Rena Sabin Papers, Mss.B.SA12, LH-B-33. APS.” When I was in third grade, I joined an afterschool program...
Michael Miller
One of the perks of working at the APS’s Library & Museum is that you never know what you are going to find. While reprocessing...
David Nelson
The Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) is pleased to announce the launch of Visualizing Women in Science. This project provides a new means of exploring...
American Philosophical Society
The David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society and the Massachusetts Historical Society intend to host a conference on the theme...
Cynthia Ott
John White Man Runs Him, on horse, Carson Yellow Tail, and possibly Leo Medicine Crow with three horses in snow. Photograph taken by William A...
Thomas Johns III
“Officers of artificers beg dismission from the service, producing certificates to show that their families are starving for bread, - no wonder! with wheat at...
American Philosophical Society
The American Philosophical Society (APS) has recently made a posthumous addition to its Membership rolls for the first time in its 280 year history. Thanks...