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March 20, 2018
On May 1, 1803, the members of the American Philosophical Society sent Librarian John Vaughan to Baltimore, in order to retrieve boxes of minerals bequeathed...
March 15, 2018
The APS Library and its Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR) are pleased to announce the completion of a new Guide to the...
March 13, 2018
Image above: Survey Map plotting the position of the John Long House on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Timothy Horsfield...
March 9, 2018
The Francis John Worsley Roughton Papers and the Britton Chance Papers will be forever linked as professor and student for their innovative development of the...
February 28, 2018
Inside the vault of the American Philosophical Society, almost hidden in the back corner sits a single box with the papers of Richard Price, 1767-1790...
February 22, 2018
In a letter to colleague John Shepherd in 1997, the linguist, anthropologist and folklorist Dell Hymes wrote: “At the risk of overloading someone who is...
February 20, 2018
In commemoration of the American Philosophical Society’s 275 th anniversary, the Society’s Library, along with the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and the Association of Research...
February 13, 2018
The American Philosophical Society’s book collecting was slow for the first sixty years of its existence with only a few hundred volumes adorning its shelves...