News and Notes
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Fellows Update: Joanna Radin and Kurt MacMillan
December 2, 2012
Joanna Radin (2010-2011 Dissertation Writing Fellow) is Assistant Professor of History of Medicine and of History at Yale University.
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Fellows Update: Andrew Berns and Terry Christensen
December 1, 2012
Andrew Berns (2009-2010 Research Fellow) is the Melville J. Kahn fellow this year at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.
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Hagley Museum & Library aquires Howe and Lescaze Design Archive, Dessauer Papers
November 26, 2012
Pennsylvania Saving Fund Society Howe and Lescaze Design Archive (Accession 2062) Although acquired in 1993, the blueprints, drawings, and photographs by Howe and Lescaze, designers of Phila
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Hagley Museum & Library obtains Pahlmann Papers, Schroeder Papers, and Sperry Corporation Photographs
November 23, 2012
William Pahlmann Papers (Accession 2388) William Pahlmann defined mid-century modern in domestic and public interior designs.
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The Hagley Museum & Library's Hendrick Manufacturing Company Records
November 20, 2012
Hendrick Manufacturing Company Business Records, 1861-1980 (Accession 2409). This collection, assembled by the last family president of the Hendrick Manufacturing Company, documents both the
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The Republic of Fever: Commerce, Warfare and the Making of Warm Climate Medicine in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
November 13, 2012
Katherine Arner, Johns Hopkins University
2011 to 2012 Research Fellow -
Prediction and Control: Global Population Projection in the Twentieth Century
November 6, 2012
Emily Merchant University of Michigan 2012-2013 Dissertation Research Fellow Prediction and Control: Global Population Projection in the Twentieth Century My dissertation traces the h
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Radium Therapy in America, 1898-1939
October 31, 2012
Aimee Slaughter, University of Minnesota
2012 to 2013 Research Fellow -
2012-13 Working Groups
September 27, 2012
The Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science invites area scholars to join several topical working groups for challenging and collegial discussion of interesting publications in their fields
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Call for Papers: History of Women’s Health Conference
September 27, 2012
The Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, will host its eighth annual History of Women’s Health Conference on Wednesday, April 17, 2013.