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Apply for Consortium Research Fellowships

The Consortium invites applications for fellowships in the history of science, technology and medicine, broadly construed. Opportunities currently include:
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Human Remains in Demand and on Display: A Conversation with Sam Redman

Listen to Sam Redman discuss the history of museums collecting human remains, and the purposes these displays served. Add your questions and comments to the discussion forum.
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Energy Transitions Past and Present with Christopher Jones

Christopher Jones answers questions about energy transitions and infrastructure. Listen to the discussion and add your questions or comments.

News and Notes

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.
Winter 2018 Fellows Update

See the latest news from Consortium fellows.
Huntington Library Joins the Consortium

We are delighted to announce that the Huntington Library has become the Consortium's newest member.
Humanism Encaged: The American Zoo, 1887-1917

At the turn of the twentieth century, zoological parks became wildly popular in the United States. The rise of the American zoo brought with it a rise in popular zoology, with wide-ranging consequences for for science, technology and medicine.
Phonographs, Flying Machines, and the Animality of Modernity

Daniel Vandersommers, Assistant Professor at the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities at Ball State University, and former Consortium NEH Postdoctoral Fellow, will deliver a public talk on the role of zoos as sites for scientific research and education.
“A Mind Prostrate”: Physicians, Opiates, and Insanity in the Civil War’s Aftermath

New research points to an opiate addiction epidemic from the nineteenth century.
Linda Hall Library 2019-2020 Fellowships

The Linda Hall Library is now accepting applications for its 2019-20 fellowship program.
Fall 2018 Fellows Update

See the latest news from Consortium fellows.

May 30, 2019

Robert D. Hicks

The Nicholas Lecture: Book Launch for "Civil War Medicine: A Surgeon's Diary"

College of Physicians of Philadelphia
June 6, 2019

Networks: The Creation and Circulation of Knowledge from Franklin to Facebook

American Philosophical Society
July 23, 2019

HSS Annual Meeting

History of Science Society
November 7, 2019

Meeting of the American Philosophical Society

American Philosophical Society