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Apply for Consortium Fellowships

Apply by December 15 for Research Fellowships, Long-Term NEH Fellowships and Emanuel Fellowships for Independent Scholars
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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.

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Rockefeller Archive Center accessions Miklos Müller oral history and István Deák interview

The new accessions will add to research in the history of science during the Cold War.
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.

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Upcoming Events

Tuesday, October 22, 2024 10:00 am EDT

Quantum Century

Tuesday, October 22, 2024 1:00 pm EDT

History of Technology

Wednesday, October 23, 2024 10:00 am EDT

Hidden Hands in Colonial Natural Histories

Wednesday, October 23, 2024 11:00 am EDT

History of Death and Disease in the Islamicate World

Wednesday, October 23, 2024 12:00 pm EDT

Cheryl Krasnick Warsh

Author Interview: Cheryl Krasnick Warsh on Frances Oldham Kelsey, the FDA, and the Battle Against Thalidomide

Thursday, October 24, 2024 11:00 am EDT

Medieval European Medical Manuscripts

Thursday, October 24, 2024 12:00 pm EDT

Eram Alam

Mobilizing Medicine

Thursday, October 24, 2024 3:00 pm EDT

Jeremy Greene

The Needle and the Damage Done: Ecologies of Syringe Use and Abuse

Thursday, October 24, 2024 4:30 pm EDT

Catherine Mas

A Cuban Chimpanzee, the 20th-Century Laboratory, and Caging as Scientific Practice

Friday, October 25, 2024 11:00 am EDT

Engineering Studies

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