News and Notes
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The Psychotechnics of Everyday Life: Hugo Münsterberg and the Politics of Applied Psychology, 1892-1920
October 1, 2013
Jeremy Blatter, Harvard University
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Seizing Science and Technology: American, British, and French Efforts to Take German Technology During and Following the Second World War
July 23, 2013
Douglas O’Reagan, University of California, Berkeley
2012 to 2013 Research Fellow -
Benjamin H. Latrobe's Philadelphia Waterworks: Republican Emblem and Democratic Instrument of Healthy Equilibrium
July 22, 2013
Catherine Bonier, University of Pennsylvania
2012 to 2013 Research Fellow -
Drexel University acquires faculty papers from the dawn of the Macintosh
July 19, 2013
Drexel University Libraries announces the acquisition of a collection of faculty papers documenting the rise of microcomputing at Drexel.
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A Reinterpretation of American Institutions for the Feeble-minded, 1875-1920: the development of a “bureaucracy of care”
July 18, 2013
Katrina Jirik, University of Minnesota
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Correspondenzblatt der Homoeopatischen Aerzt at Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center
July 18, 2013
The history of homeopathic medicine in the United States is rooted in the area around Allentown, Pennsylvania, where the North American Academy of the Homeopathic Healing Art was founded in 1835 as
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June 2013 Newsletter
June 26, 2013
The Center's newsletter has updates on the fellowship program, public and academic events, collections of cons
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American Philosophical Society receives the papers of Britton Chance
June 20, 2013
The Library of the American Philosophical Society has received the papers of Britton Chance (1913-2010), the Eldridge Reeves Johnson Emeritus Professor of Biophysics, Physical Chemistry, and Radiol
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The Historical Society of Pennsylvania obtains American Society for Testing Materials records
June 20, 2013
The American Society for Testing and Materials, now known as ASTM International, was founded in 1898 by a group of engineers and scientists to tackle the problem of frequent break in railroad track
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Susan Parry volumes, 1849-circa 1890, come to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
June 19, 2013
Susan Parry (circa 1833-circa 1895) of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, taught school in Lumberville, Pennsylvania in 1849.