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Apply for Consortium Fellowships

Apply by December 15 for Research Fellowships, Long-Term NEH Fellowships and Emanuel Fellowships for Independent Scholars
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Burning a Monopoly: Kerosene and Anti-monopoly Politics Against Standard Oil, 1848-1911

Read about Minseok Jang's research exploring energy history and the anti-trust movement during the transition to artificial lighting and kerosene.
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Addictive Forms: Opium, Physiology, and the Stimulable Empire in the Nineteenth Century

Read about the research of Consortium Fellow Menglu Gao, as she rethinks the conceptual relationship between addiction and empire in the nineteenth century, based on her research in the collections of the Wellcome and Yale University.

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Rockefeller Archive Center accessions Miklos Müller oral history and István Deák interview

The new accessions will add to research in the history of science during the Cold War.
Beer History Studies Fellowship at Newberry Library

Application deadline is January 3, 2025.
University of Illinois Receives NEH Grant to Amplify Access to the Archives of Women Scientists

The University of Illinois Library has received a $60,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create digital resources and the foundation for a network of partners that amplifies access to the digitized archives of women scientists, focusing initially on the domestic science movement.
Explore Medicine on Screen from the National Library of Medicine

Medicine on Screen is a curated portal to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) historical audiovisual collections.
Book Launch ~ Challenging Stories: Exploring the Intersections between Health and the Humanities

Join the National Institute of Health to celebrate the open-access publication of Challenging Stories: Exploring the Intersections between Health and the Humanities.
Research Fellowships from the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center

Applications are due October 15, 2024.
Elizabeth Coates Paschall Receipt Book Digitized

The book is available in partnership with the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation.
Chasing the Magic Bullet: The History and Consequences of Vaccine Research

Consortium Fellow Kirsten Moore-Sheeley discusses the history and consequences of failures and challenges in vaccine research.

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Upcoming Events

Thursday, October 17, 2024 1:00 pm EDT

Reproductive Health Histories

Thursday, October 17, 2024 2:00 pm EDT

Rachael Gillibrand

Visionary Technology: Exploring Eyeglasses and Impairment in the NLM’s Collections

Friday, October 18, 2024 12:00 pm EDT

Applied Medical History

Friday, October 18, 2024 12:00 pm EDT

History of Evolution and Heredity in Brazil

Monday, October 21, 2024 8:00 am EDT

Sports Technology and Innovation: New Perspectives

Monday, October 21, 2024 10:30 am EDT

History of Science in Early South Asia

Monday, October 21, 2024 3:30 pm EDT

Sara Pritchard

HSS Workshop: “Seeing Like a Turtle”: Ecologists, Light Pollution, and the Anthropocene

Monday, October 21, 2024 6:00 pm EDT

Gary Brantley

Innovative Lives with Gary Brantley (SVP and CIO, National Football League)

Monday, October 21, 2024 8:00 pm EDT

Religion, Nature and Evolution in Modern Japan and East Asia

Tuesday, October 22, 2024 10:00 am EDT

Quantum Century

Two stylistic interpretations of the same woodcut from two copies of Walther Ryff’s Des aller fürtrefflichsten, höchsten und adelichsten Geschöpffs aller Creaturen…. Both copies were printed in 1541 from the press of Balthasar Beck. Image courtesy of Yale University.
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Podcast & Video

History of Science Society at 100: Mining in the history and social studies of Science

DNA Papers 15: A conversation with Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl

IsisCB Special Issue on Pandemics Episode 3

Donald L. Opitz — Daughters of Ceres

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