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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.
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Trust in Science: Vaccines

Join us in examining diverse historical perspectives on anti-vaccine movements. Watch video presentations by leading scholars, read other expert commentaries, and add your perspective in the discussion forum.
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Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America

In this podcast, Melanie Kiechle answers questions about her book on urban environments, public health, and senses of smell in the nineteenth century.

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.

April 22, 2019

Surekha Davies

Maps, Monsters, and Natural History in the Age of Exploration Exploration: The Globe and Beyond Lecture Series

Caltech Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
April 25, 2019

Meeting of the American Philosophical Society

American Philosophical Society
April 25, 2019

John Dawson, Professor Emeritus, Penn State University

How Relevant Has Logic Been To Mathematical Practice?

Philadelphia Area Seminar on History of Mathematics
April 25, 2019

Regina Lee Blaszczyk (University of Leeds)

The Synthetics Revolution and the Senses

Hagley Museum and Library
April 26, 2019

Looking Back as We Move Forward: The Past, Present, and Future of the History of Science

The Division of the Humanities & Social Sciences and the Provost’s Office at Caltech; the Sloan Foundation Program in Public Understanding of Science & Technology; the William & Myrtle Harris Endowment for Science & Civilization at Caltech; the Francis Bacon Found.; and the Richard Lounsbery Found.
May 20, 2019

Paolo Galluzzi

Leonardo da Vinci: History of the Earth and the Fate of Man: William & Myrtle Harris Lecture in Science and Civilization

Caltech Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
July 23, 2019

HSS Annual Meeting

History of Science Society
September 4, 2019

Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science

Society for Social Studies of Science
October 24, 2019

SHOT Annual Meeting

Society for the History of Technology