American Philosophical Society

American Philosophical Society This country's first learned society, the APS has played an important role in American cultural and intellectual life for over 250 years.

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Monday - Friday 9:00 AM - 4:45 PM

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Thursday - Sunday 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Come work with us! The American Philosophical Society is looking for a Major Planned Gift Officer. Find more information...
05/29/2026

Come work with us! The American Philosophical Society is looking for a Major Planned Gift Officer. Find more information and apply here: bit.ly/4uEeEir

Join us! The American Philosophical Society seeks a Development Coordinator to provide critical operational and administ...
05/29/2026

Join us! The American Philosophical Society seeks a Development Coordinator to provide critical operational and administrative support to the Development team. Find more information and apply here: bit.ly/4vhieiG

Congratulations to APS Fellow Dr. Blake McGready for successfully defending his dissertation and earning his PhD in Hist...
05/29/2026

Congratulations to APS Fellow Dr. Blake McGready for successfully defending his dissertation and earning his PhD in History from The Graduate Center, CUNY! Blake has worked on his dissertation titled “Making Nature's Nation: The Revolutionary War and Environmental Interdependence in New York, 1775–1783” at the APS as our long-term David Center for the American Revolution Predoctoral Fellow and successfully bucked his “predoctoral” title.

Congratulations to Jill Lepore (APS 2014), who recently won the Pulitzer Prize for History for her book We the People: A...
05/28/2026

Congratulations to Jill Lepore (APS 2014), who recently won the Pulitzer Prize for History for her book We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution. The Pulitzer Prize committee called the book "a lively and engaging narrative that investigates why the Constitution is so hard to amend.”

The city of Philadelphia is busy renovating, planting, and decorating in preparation for this July’s semiquincentennial ...
05/28/2026

The city of Philadelphia is busy renovating, planting, and decorating in preparation for this July’s semiquincentennial celebrations. At the APS and the David Center for the American Revolution, we’re taking this anniversary as an opportunity to reflect with a conference on “America’s 1776: Independence and its Enduring Legacies.” The opening keynote will feature acclaimed historians discussing “July 4th, 1776.”

Learn more and register for the free event here: https://bit.ly/4vkQ8mF

Can’t make it to Philly? The event will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel.

“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”Since 1743, APS Members have sustained its mission—speaking out ...
05/27/2026

“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”

Since 1743, APS Members have sustained its mission—speaking out with conviction that intellectual inquiry and critical thought are inherently in the best interest of the public. Check back weekly for their words of wisdom.

What to do about hives and sore eyes? Diaries, notes, and other documents from the Wyck and Eastwick collections at the ...
05/26/2026

What to do about hives and sore eyes? Diaries, notes, and other documents from the Wyck and Eastwick collections at the American Philosophical Society show a variety of recipes for addressing these conditions. Read more on the APS Blog from Alyssa Brophy, Research & Membership Assistant at the APS. 🥣

Full blog post here: https://bit.ly/3RvUd8U

05/25/2026

Shell shock, the thousand-yard stare—it’s never been easy for soldiers to return to life as they knew it before combat. This Memorial Day, our Meeting Monday comes from historian Jennifer Keene on “Experiencing World War I,” who shared how veterans of the First World War were supported, or forgotten, after their service.

Watch the full talk here: https://bit.ly/4ujGY9K

Congratulations to Robert B. Caldwell on his publication of "Choctaw-Apache Voices Volume 2" with Sandhills/Lewis-Clark ...
05/22/2026

Congratulations to Robert B. Caldwell on his publication of "Choctaw-Apache Voices Volume 2" with Sandhills/Lewis-Clark Press. This new volume follows the success of “Choctaw-Apache Voices” published in 2023 by Stephen F. Austin University Press. Both were edited by Caldwell and Thomas Parrie and feature stories, folklore, history, poems, artwork, and more from Choctaw-Apache people. Caldwell joined us at the APS in 2025 and 2016 as a Library Fellow and is currently a professor at the University at Buffalo.

Learn more and purchase the volume here: https://bit.ly/4ujtT0f

Congratulations to Carla Hayden (APS 2020), who received the 2026 Champion of Writers Award from the Authors Guild. Carl...
05/21/2026

Congratulations to Carla Hayden (APS 2020), who received the 2026 Champion of Writers Award from the
Authors Guild. Carla Hayden was the 14th Librarian of Congress at the The Library of Congress, the first African American, first woman, and first professional librarian to hold that position. Hayden is now a Senior Fellow at the Mellon Foundation.

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