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News and Notes

Inventing Indian Country: Race and Environment in the Black Hills, 1851-1981

Environmental disasters reveal the enduring legacies of settler colonialism and conquest.
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Johns Hopkins Joins the Consortium

The Consortium is proud to report that Johns Hopkins University is now a member institution!
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June 2019 Newsletter

In the June 2019 Newsletter: updates on new public events series; JHU joins Consortium; Fellows for 2019-20; updates on past fellows and Consortium collections.

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Carol Greider Manuscripts at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Nobel laureate Carol Greider has donated extensive materials documenting her research in molecular biology to the archive at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), a Consortium member institution on Long Island, New York.
RAC Named Repository for William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Records

The collection documents the founding and early history of one the largest grant-giving foundations in the United States.
Spring 2019 Fellows Update

Read about the latest updates from Consortium fellows.
Apply for Consortium Research Fellowships

The Consortium invites applications for fellowships in the history of science, technology and medicine, broadly construed. Opportunities currently include:
Wellcome Collection Makes Papers of Stephen Abrams Available for Research

The collection includes many personal and professional writings of the parapsychologist, Jungian scholar and cannabis law reform campaigner.
Columbia Acquires Early French Manuscript on the Construction and Use of Napier’s Bones

This manuscript provides an example of vernacular dissemination of mathematical knowledge.
Hagley Library Adds Harwood Railroad Collection of Photographs

The collection of nearly 150,000 images include notable photographs of railroads throughout the twentieth century.
December 2018 Newsletter

In the December 2018 Newsletter: The Huntington joins Consortium. Online forum: Shopping for Health. News about public and academic events as well as Consortium fellows.

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Upcoming Events

July 10, 2019

Barbara Berney and Adam Biggs, moderated by Danielle Laraque-Arena

How Long Will We Wait? The Desegregation of American Hospitals

New York Academy of Medicine

July 16, 2019

Rebecca Kamen in collaboration with Tim Chrepta

PLOT: In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Mission

Library Company of Philadelphia
July 18, 2019

Renée Wolcott

Art, Science, Invention: Conservation and the Peale-Sellers Family

American Philosophical Society
July 23, 2019

HSS Annual Meeting

History of Science Society
July 30, 2019

Henry Zepeda

The Apex of Ptolemaic Astronomy: the Epitome Almagesti of Peurbach and Regiomontanus

Linda Hall Library
August 8, 2019

Corey Maley

Analog Computation in a Digital World: Understanding the Place of a Bygone Technology in Contemporary Science

Linda Hall Library
November 7, 2019

Meeting of the American Philosophical Society

American Philosophical Society

How Long Will We Wait? The Desegregation of American Hospitals