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July 7, 2020
Philadelphia July 7, 2020— Thanks to a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through the NEH CARES initiative, the American Philosophical Society...
June 30, 2020
The Transactions of the American Philosophical Society is the nation’s oldest scientific periodical, and the publication of its first volume in early March 1771 proved...
June 25, 2020
Over the past few weeks, we have explored a series of cooking recipes found in the American Philosophical Society’s collection of Benjamin Franklin’s manuscripts. Nearly...
June 18, 2020
Juneteenth marks the date that word of the Emancipation Proclamation made its way to Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865 and Union troops informed enslaved...
June 11, 2020
We return with our exploration of the cooking recipes found in the American Philosophical Society’s collections of Benjamin Franklin’s manuscripts. Nearly sixty years ago, APS...
June 8, 2020
Fresh off of the LAMP (Library and Museum Programming) takeover of the APS’s social media accounts, June will transition us into the APS Museum Guide...
June 2, 2020
In his 1971 essay, “Skeletons in the Anthropological Closet,” William Shedrick Willis, Jr. (1921-1983) laid out a stunning critique of anthropology that continues to have...
May 29, 2020
This week, we continue our exploration of the series of cooking recipes, found in the American Philosophical Society’s collections of Benjamin Franklin’s manuscripts. Nearly sixty...