2023 Patrick Suppes Prize winner Elke Weber has collected another major award-- the Frontiers of Knowledge Award from Fundación BBVA for her research on decision making and human responses to climate change.

This Sunday 11am-3pm, celebrate the lead up to Earth Day with a hands-on program inspired by our current exhibition, Sketching Splendor. Visitors will channel their inner gardener and learn about growing green bean plants, the stages of growing, and more! amphilsoc.org/events/earth-d…

This year's issue of the APS News is here! Read stories about our 2023 exhibition on women in science, exciting new changes for the APS Press, and updates from APS Members and Fellows.
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Se jueves, 18 de abril, la última reunión de esta primavera del Foro sobre la Sabiduría Indígena. Keith Ricotte, Jr., oferecerá una discusión sobre la Constitución de los Estados Unidos y los pueblos indígenas de América: amphilsoc.org/events/indigen…

Happy #NationalLibrarianDay ! The APS's librarians make the Society's collections accessible to researchers and the public. Hear from Head of Manuscripts Processing Valerie-Ann Lutz about her path to becoming a librarian and her work at the APS: youtube.com/watch?v=Wnmkzq…

Did you miss yesterday's family program celebrating Charles Willson Peale's birthday? Mark your calendar for this Sunday for Earth Day activities including plant illustration, how to grow green bean plants, the stages of plant development, and more! amphilsoc.org/events/earth-d…

Do you have your tax return in? This resolution from the 1781 congress, then under the Articles of Confederation, called for raising $8,000 from the states and recommended levying a tax to do so. diglib.amphilsoc.org/islandora/obje…

Stop by the Thomas Jefferson Garden (across from the APS Museum at 104 S 5th st) today (11 am - 3 pm) to help us celebrate Charles Willson Peale's 283rd birthday! Hands-on activities for all ages will reflect Peale's interest in natural history, art, and archaeology.

Today is #NationalPlantAppreciationDay ! These drawings of white violet (Titian Ramsay Peale) and red columbine (P. J. F. Turpin) are on display in our new exhibition, Sketching Splendor, American Natural History, 1750-1850. Plan your visit for a Thurs-Sunday through December.

Thomas Jefferson was born #onthisday in 1743. In 2020, art historian Gaye Wilson spoke to the APS about the final portrait painted of Jefferson from life. Thomas Sully's painting hangs above the stage in the Society's Benjamin Franklin Hall. youtube.com/watch?v=UeiovK…

Graduate students and early career scholars! Are there any strange, humorous, confounding, and curious sources you’ve encountered in archives that aren’t making it into your projects? Share them with Elena Telles Ryan and the #JERPano : thepanorama.shear.org/2024/04/01/pan…

Librarian of the Am Phil Society John Vaughan wrote to Julian Niemcewicz in March 1805. An answer was written by the Secretaries of the APS to J. Stroynowski Rector of the University of Wilna. Vaughan was directed to send Vols. 5 & 6 of the Transactions to the University Library.

The new miniseries on Benjamin Franklin's trip to Paris to seek aid in the American Revolution touches on his relationship with composer Madame Brillon. Learn more about Brillon's work from this talk from musicologist Rebecca Cypess: youtube.com/watch?v=qRGtwl…

Mark your calendar for this Sunday, April 14 for a celebration of Charles Willson Peale's birthday! Visit our brand new exhibition, Sketching Splendor, and learn about Peale's interest in natural history & archaeology with hands-on activities for all ages. amphilsoc.org/events/family-…

Tomorrow is the opening day of Sketching Splendor: American Natural History 1750-1850. Join us for an opening reception on Friday 5:30-7:30 p.m. for refreshments and to hear about the exhibition's highlights. amphilsoc.org/events/exhibit…

Physicist Katherine Way's (1903-1995) work was on the verge of anticipating the discovery of nuclear fission. In this week's blog post from short-term fellow Stefano Furlan, learn more about Way and her work with John Wheeler. amphilsoc.org/blog/katharine…

Join the David Center Seminar on Zoom at 3 pm ET to discuss Kieran O'Keefe's paper, 'Suffering for the Crown: The Hudson Valley Loyalists, Violence, and Forced Migration in Revolutionary North America.' amphilsoc.org/events/david-c…

Huge congrats to UofL History Department assistant professor, Dr. Elise Franklin, for being awarded a grant from the Am Phil Society! With this grant, Dr. Franklin will conduct archival research in France this summer for a new book project, Abduction in the Archives.