News and Notes
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Apply for 2020-2021 Consortium Fellowships
September 20, 2019
The Consortium invites applications for fellowships in the history of science, technology and medicine, broadly construed.
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Being and Becoming a Midwife in 18th century France: Pedagogical Practices and Objects
September 19, 2019
Investigating the history of objects and practices provides new insight into hidden actors in the history of midwifery.
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NYAM Digitizes Two Projects
September 13, 2019
Over 6,600 items are now available for researchers online.
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College of Physicians Digitizes Silas Weir Mitchell Materials
September 13, 2019
A dedicated research portal offers new opportunities for scholars working on the history of 19th-century medicine
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Johns Hopkins Collections Added to Consortium Search Hub
September 13, 2019
Listings of more than 136,000 rare books are now part of the Consortium's multi-institutional catalog.
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The APS Catalogs H. Eldon Sutton Papers and Val Logsdon Fitch Papers; acquires Freeman Dyson Papers
September 6, 2019
These papers will add to the APS's holdings on the history of twentieth-century science.
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Adler Planetarium Publishes Catalogue of Sundial Collection
September 6, 2019
This volume highlights some of the most significant sundials in the Adler's collections, and provides information for both specialists and non-specialists.
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Strange Beauty: Botanical Collection, Preservation, and Display in the 19th Century Tropics
August 14, 2019
A materialist examination of tropical plants gives an understanding of the intersection of art and science at the center of modern ways of using and understanding tropical nature.
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Caltech Special Collections Added to Consortium Search Hub
August 13, 2019
Listings of more than 1,000 rare books on the history of science are now integrated into our multi-institutional catalog.
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Cyberdreams of the Information Age: Machines for Learning in the Cold War United States and the Soviet Union
August 6, 2019
Examining software and psychological models as a front in the Cold War