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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.
Featured Event
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 12:00pm
History of Medicine Week with the AAHM

Exploring the risks, benefits, experiences, and best practices for making meaningful connections beyond scholarly communities.

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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.
Call for Papers: 6th AIP Early-Career Conference for Historians of the Physical Sciences

Celebrating the Physical Sciences and Embracing Diversity:
The 6th AIP Early-Career Conference for Historians of the Physical Sciences

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Upcoming Events

Tuesday, October 15, 2024 11:00 am EDT

Color Photography in the 19th Century and Early 20th Century: Sciences, Technologies, Empires

Tuesday, October 15, 2024 2:00 pm EDT

History of Ocean Science, Technology and Medicine

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 2:00 pm EDT

Women, Gender and Sexuality in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 6:00 pm EDT

Leah Aronowsky, Elizabeth Povinelli, Sophia Roosth

A Post-Mortem for the Anthropocene

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

History of Evolution and Heredity in Brazil

Friday, October 18, 2024 12:00 pm EDT

Applied Medical History

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: Sara Pritchard

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