Our newest member is one of only five National Research Libraries in the UK, with wide holdings in the history of science, technology and medicine.
Nancy D. Campbell traces how rural Pennsylvania’s energy landscape evolved from anthracite coal to nuclear power—and now to a massive data-center boom. Her research reveals how decades of corporate consolidation, financial speculation, and energy development are reshaping Salem Township, its land, and its communities.
New York Academy of Medicine seeks applications for a Special Collections Reference Librarian
José Alberto Nochebuena uncovers the transnational history of soil mechanics and its transformative role in shaping modern Mexico City.
Clare Byers examines how eighteenth-century books circulated and reshaped knowledge about North America, revealing how readers used, corrected, and repurposed older information to make new knowledge.
Propose a draft article, dissertation chapter or book chapter for discussion at one of the Consortium's working groups.
The Consortium is delighted to announce nine new working groups are joining our calendar of monthly online meetings for 2026-2027.
The Consortium is delighted to welcome the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science as a member institution.
Apply by October 1 for Emanuel Fellowships for Independent Scholars, Dissertation Completion Fellowships and Research Fellowships.
Jonathan MacDonald explores how postwar American social scientists used popular media to bring social science to broad audiences and shaped public understanding of democracy, psychology, and civic life.
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The first meeting of the Academy was held on the second floor, above an apothecary shop, on January 25, 1812.