The Science History Institute is seeking an accomplished executive to serve as Vice President and Arnold Thackray Director of the Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Library of Chemical History.
Selling Wellness: Marketing Materials, Behaviors, and Services for Improved Health in Modern Africa
Julia Cummiskey explores how public policy, corporate enterprise, and visual media shaped health messaging across the continent.University of Manchester Joins Consortium
Our newest member is one of only five National Research Libraries in the UK, with wide holdings in the history of science, technology and medicine.Apply for Consortium Fellowships
Apply by October 1 for Emanuel Fellowships for Independent Scholars, Dissertation Completion Fellowships and Research Fellowships.The conference will take place June 21-25, 2027, at the University of Toronto, Canada. The submission deadline is November 15, 2026.
Nancy D. Campbell traces how rural Pennsylvania’s energy landscape evolved from anthracite coal to nuclear power—and now to a massive data-center boom. Her research reveals how decades of corporate consolidation, financial speculation, and energy development are reshaping Salem Township, its land, and its communities.
New York Academy of Medicine seeks applications for a Special Collections Reference Librarian
José Alberto Nochebuena uncovers the transnational history of soil mechanics and its transformative role in shaping modern Mexico City.
Clare Byers examines how eighteenth-century books circulated and reshaped knowledge about North America, revealing how readers used, corrected, and repurposed older information to make new knowledge.
Propose a draft article, dissertation chapter or book chapter for discussion at one of the Consortium's working groups.
The Consortium is delighted to announce nine new working groups are joining our calendar of monthly online meetings for 2026-2027.
The Consortium is delighted to welcome the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science as a member institution.
Jonathan MacDonald explores how postwar American social scientists used popular media to bring social science to broad audiences and shaped public understanding of democracy, psychology, and civic life.
Monday, September 14, 2026, 8:00 pm EDT
Consortium Working Group
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Johns Hopkins University
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Telescope used for observing the transit of Venus, 1769.
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