News and Notes
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Apply for Consortium Research Fellowships
May 16, 2019
The Consortium invites applications for fellowships in the history of science, technology and medicine, broadly construed.
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Johns Hopkins Joins the Consortium
April 26, 2019
The Consortium is proud to report that Johns Hopkins University is now a member institution!
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Wellcome Collection Makes Papers of Stephen Abrams Available for Research
April 19, 2019
The collection includes many personal and professional writings of the parapsychologist, Jungian scholar and cannabis law reform campaigner.
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Columbia Acquires Early French Manuscript on the Construction and Use of Napier’s Bones
April 19, 2019
This manuscript provides an example of vernacular dissemination of mathematical knowledge.
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Hagley Library Adds Harwood Railroad Collection of Photographs
April 19, 2019
The collection of nearly 150,000 images include notable photographs of railroads throughout the twentieth century.
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December 2018 Newsletter
January 3, 2019
In the December 2018 Newsletter: The Huntington joins Consortium. Online forum: Shopping for Health.
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Winter 2018 Fellows Update
December 13, 2018
See the latest news from Consortium fellows.
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Huntington Library Joins the Consortium
November 29, 2018
We are delighted to announce that the Huntington Library has become the Consortium's newest member.
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Humanism Encaged: The American Zoo, 1887-1917
November 27, 2018
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.
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Phonographs, Flying Machines, and the Animality of Modernity
November 8, 2018
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 pub