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October 26, 2017
Welcome to the new American Philosophical Society website! This site features a mobile-friendly design and more intuitive navigation to meet the needs of APS Members...
October 4, 2017
Last time we spoke, I was introducing you to a 19th-century letter in need of treatment. Due to the planned use of this object in...
August 23, 2017
An important, yet at times challenging, task of manuscript processing is identifying the authors of letters. Archivists need to employ various strategies and consult various...
August 18, 2017
During the summer of 2017, C.V. Starr Center Explore America Intern Ben Weinstein digitized the descriptively titled volume, “Book of Record of Indentures of Individuals...
August 17, 2017
This manuscript, Vocabulario de la Lengua Cakchiquel y Guatimalteca by Thomás de Coto, was bound in parchment around 1700. The leaves of the thick book...
August 14, 2017
In 2015, APS Member Hans Aarsleff, a distinguished scholar in the history of linguistics, donated a beautiful collection of books on linguistics and philosophy to...
August 11, 2017
By any measure, public health leader Victor George Heiser (1873-1972) lived a long, productive, and vigorous life. His eighty-six diaries (1890-1970) predate the Spanish-American War...
August 11, 2017
Well before she became a leader in comparative linguistics, Mary Rosamond Haas (1910 –1996) maintained a diary (1928 –1931) that provides some candid insights from...