News and Notes
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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
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“A Mind Prostrate”: Physicians, Opiates, and Insanity in the Civil War’s Aftermath
November 6, 2018
New research points to an opiate addiction epidemic from the nineteenth century.
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Linda Hall Library 2019-2020 Fellowships
October 9, 2018
The Linda Hall Library is now accepting applications for its 2019-20 fellowship program.
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Fall 2018 Fellows Update
October 6, 2018
See the latest news from Consortium fellows.
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October 2018 Newsletter
October 3, 2018
In the October 2018 Newsletter: Caltech joins Consortium. New fellowship program and funding. New fellows for 2018-19.
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CFP: “Networks: The Creation and Circulation of Knowledge from Franklin to Facebook”
October 3, 2018
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California Institute of Technology Joins Consortium
September 26, 2018
The Consortium is delighted to welcome the California Institute of Technology as its newest member.
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Doctrine of the Skull: Phrenology and Popular Knowledge in Antebellum America
September 21, 2018
In the nineteenth century, phrenology transformed the relationship between scientists and the public.
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The H. W. Lende Manuscript Collection
September 11, 2018
The Smithsonian Libraries’ Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology has recently acquired the splendid manuscript collection of the late Henry Willard Lende, Jr, notable history of s