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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.
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Sickness and the City

How have diseases and urban development interacted in history and contemporary societies? Watch video presentations by leading scholars, read other expert commentaries, and add your perspective in our discussion forum.
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Shopping for Health: Medicine and Markets in America

How has medical consumerism contributed to the challenges of our current healthcare system, including the opioid epidemic? Watch video presentations by leading historians, read other scholars' expert commentaries, and add your perspective in our discussion forum.

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.

March 21, 2019

Paul R. Wolfson

How Did Riemann Arrive at His Curvature?

Philadelphia Area Seminar on History of Mathematics
March 25, 2019

Eli Nelson

STS Circle at Harvard: Repossessing the Wilderness: New Deal Sciences in the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation

Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
March 25, 2019

David Sepkoski

HSS Workshop: Catastrophic Thinking in Science and Culture; or, How We Learned to Start Worrying and Fear Mass Extinctions

University of Pennsylvania
March 26, 2019

Library Pop-up: Women's History Month

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
March 26, 2019

C. Pierce Salguero

Sino-Buddhist Medicine: A Missing Link in the Global History of Medicine

The Huntington
March 27, 2019

Stuart Grey

A History of Space Debris

Wolf Humanities Center, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics and Astronomy and Penn Sustainability
March 27, 2019

Doug Lantry

APOLLO SPACESUITS: HISTORY, TECHNOLOGY, AND CULTURE

Hagley Museum and Library
March 31, 2019

Sujit Sivasundaram

Botany and the Roots of the British Conquest of Sri Lanka

The Huntington
April 10, 2019

ASEH Annual Meeting

American Society for Environmental History