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September 25, 2023
Header Image: Scheme for an Expedition to Kittanning, John Armstrong, [1775]. Mss.Ms.Coll.200. APS. Following a two-year COVID delay, it was an honor to visit the...
September 18, 2023
The Library & Museum at the American Philosophical Society supports a diverse community of scholars working on a wide-range of projects in fields including early...
September 11, 2023
Header image: Katherine Esau standing in an Oxnard sugar beet field in 1923. From the Katherine Esau Papers, Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University...
September 5, 2023
The Library & Museum at the American Philosophical Society supports a diverse community of scholars working on a wide-range of projects in fields including early...
August 28, 2023
Daily work as a cataloger at the APS involves frequently consulting bibliographies for citation references. One fundamental source that I cite from is A Dictionary...
August 21, 2023
Header image: Detail from handwritten page of Florence Rena Sabin’s list of women in science. APS. In my work on the American Philosophical Society’s latest...
August 14, 2023
By: Joseph DiLullo and Sabrina Bocanegra The Charles Thomas Jackson Papers are on the road to being accessible. The papers began arriving at the American...
August 7, 2023
HMS Jersey drawing is from Recollections of Life on the Prison Ship Jersey . APS. The American Philosophical Society houses the Sol Feinstone Collection, a...