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July 10, 2018
The 1793 yellow fever epidemic features prominently in middle school curriculum throughout the east coast. Knowing this, and having fallen tragically in love with letters...
June 27, 2018
The American Philosophical Society will be closed on Wednesday, July 4, 2018. The APS Library and offices will remain closed on July 5 and 6...
June 26, 2018
I am delighted to announce the public availability of the Diary Research Guide. This guide reflects my 11 months of research into the manuscript collections...
June 19, 2018
Readers are often surprised to learn that the horizontal bumps on an old book’s spine have a purpose. Those bumps, known as raised bands, are...
June 15, 2018
This is what a researcher at the Eugenics Record Office (ERO) concluded after analyzing the handedness of 1,305 children stemming from 340 different “matings” (that...
May 29, 2018
Image above: Sketch of two chickens, Titian Ramsay Peale, n.d. APS Digital Library. Most people probably don’t realize how important chickens have been in biological...
May 25, 2018
By Jonathan Singerton Image above: Detail of Donath’s layout of his hives, ca. April 1787, APS Digital Library In March 1787, Joseph Donath (1751-1829) arrived...
May 17, 2018
Image above: Theodosius Dobzhansky at his desk, ca. 1965. APS Digital Library. When he wasn’t reshaping the fields of genetics and evolutionary biology, Theodosius Dobzhansky...