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.
The Consortium's 2025-2026 Year in Review celebrates a year of growth, collaboration and scholarship across the history of science, technology and medicine. The report highlights the people, programs and partnerships that enriched our global community. Read the Year in Review to explore what our communities have accomplished together and the impact we've made over the past year.
The Consortium is pleased to announce a new Dissertation Completion Fellowship program, generously supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Olivia Casey uses Consortium member collections to show how mid-twentieth-century economists and demographers complicated prevailing ideas tying girls' education to fertility control.
William Krause explores how the concept of individual genius shaped U.S. culture, industry and academics in the twentieth century.
Registration now open for the Science History Institute's 2026 Gordon Cain Conference taking place August 6 and August 7, 2026.
Elizabeth Maher examines the gendered and racialized bifurcation of psychological diagnoses, and the historical roots of autism’s association with white masculinity and technocracy.
Nathalia Gomes uses Consortium member collections to explore the layers of local and global agency in one of the world's largest disease eradication programs.
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Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri. 1555 second edition, with manuscript notes and corrections in the author's hand. Image courtesy of the University of Toronto.