American Philosophical Society Press

Out now! Proceedings of the APS Vol. 166 No. 2. Read on Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55607

TONIGHT! At 6 p.m. ET, livestreaming and in person in Philadelphia, APS Press author Thomas E. Chávez is part of a roundtable on Spain and the War for American Independence.

Register online at www.amphilsoc.org/events/spain... and purchase your copy of the book at www.pennpress.org/978160618897...

Out now! A new edition of The Social Philosophers: Community and Conflict in Western Thought by Robert Nisbet, with a new foreword by Luke Sheahan.

Buy the book Daniel J. Mahoney calls "a feast for the mind and a joy to read" at the link: www.pennpress.org/978160618038...

Thanks to everyone who joined us last week at our fourth APS Press publishing salon! The insightful panelists got us thinking, talking, and laughing about book reviewing.

Ben Yagoda
Paula Marantz Cohen
Damon Linker
Ann de Forest
Autumn Konopka
Kristen Brida

Our next salon will be in October!

Browse the latest catalog from our distribution partner Penn Press! You'll see exciting new APS Press titles like The Social Philosophers by Robert Nisbet with a new foreword by Luke Sheahan (Sept. 2) and Imperfect Oracle by Cass Sunstein (Oct. 14)

Out now! Alexander von Humboldt: Writings in English, Parts I & II.

Presenting the 250 texts the “father of environmentalism” wrote in English, unabridged in their original form.

Buy the set of two and save! Individual volumes are $45 and the set is $75.

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New on the @amphilsociety.bsky.social blog, Penn Press Acquisitions Assistant Jon Repetti dives deep into the 1964 @amphilpress.bsky.social title Fish-Shape Paumanok, in which author Robert Cushman Murphy contemplates the relationship between man and nature on his native Long Island: bit.ly/4oxy9Xg

Talk book reviewing with us at our next publishing salon in Philadelphia!

We'll be discussing the review process with panelists who know it well.

Readers, writers, publishers, and anyone interested in book reviewing are invited to join us.

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📣 Call for Papers: Why Does the English Department Matter Today? 📣

Submission deadline: October 10, 2025

Details: www.amphilsoc.org/call-papers-...

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See the latest from APS Press author Edward Tenner in the Milken Review.

The essays in Ed's book, Why the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge, are just as entertaining and informative as this review.

Order a copy at your local bookstore or online: www.pennpress.org/978160618027...

Review: Philadelphia, The Revolutionary City at the American Philosophical Society - Journal of the American Revolution Philadelphia, The Revolutionary City exhibit at the American Philosophical Society (founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743) positions the historic city as the most consistently politically engaged throu...

The current APS Museum exhibition: Philadelphia, The Revolutionary City, was recently reviewed in Journal of the American Revolution.

Visit the APS Museum by 12/28/25 to enjoy the exhibition. You can buy a catalog there or online at www.pennpress.org/978160618122...

Edward Tenner, "Why the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge: Essays in Unintended Consequences" (APS Press, 2025) New Books in Science · Episode

Listen to Edward Tenner discuss his new book, Why the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge: Essays in Unintended Consequences, on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.

The Collector as Autocrat | Ruth Bernard Yeazell Even as he assembled a world-class art collection, Albert C. Barnes always saw himself as an embattled underdog.

In the July 24 issue of the New York Review of Books: Ruth Bernard Yeazell writes about Albert C. Barnes, describing Neil L. Rudenstine's account of the aftermath of the Barnes Foundation's move to Philadelphia as "meticulously documented."

Buy The House of Barnes here: bit.ly/45TOvCV

From “Make Love, Not War” to “Globalize the Intifada” | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera Neil Rudenstine was born in 1935 and grew up in Danbury, Connecticut. His father was a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant who became a prison guard; his mother was the daughter of Italian immigrants. He atten...

Today on arcmag.org: Mark Oppenheimer discusses campus politics with Neil L. Rudenstine, author of Our Contentious Universities: A Personal History (March 2025).

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Out now online and in print! Proceedings Volume 166 Number 1 covers a breadth of content ranging from field reports and biographical memoirs to Richard Price and autobiographies.

Read and subscribe to the digital journal at Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55078

‘Thomas Sully’s Philadelphians’ Review: A City in Portraiture The English-born painter depicted leaders of what was then the nation’s cultural capital.

"Mr. Conn’s book will be a useful guide to anyone hoping to catch a glimpse of the Liberty Bell during the semiquincentennial."

Read D.G. Hart's @wsj.com review of Thomas Sully's Philadelphians by Peter Conn at the link.

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Philadelphia in 20 Canvases Portraits of a city. Thomas Sully’s Philadelphians.

Peter Conn's "delightful book" THOMAS SULLY'S PHILADELPHIANS, new from @amphilpress.bsky.social, explores 20 of the titular painter's portraits that offer a glimpse of Philadelphia's early national history. Learn more in the Pennsylvania Gazette's review:

ALA 2025: Librarians Converge on the Cradle of Liberty Not far from the Liberty Bell, librarians prepare to assemble for ALA’s Annual Conference, which will bring upward of 10,000 library professionals to the Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Convention Center ...

“We’re coming up on our 250th birthday as a country, the association’s about to turn 150, & we’ll be meeting in our nation’s first capital. It feels momentous in a way that I’m not sure it would have in a different year.” President-elect Sam Helmick
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We're excited to welcome librarians and friends to Philly next week for the ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition! Find us at Booth 1562. We'd love to talk to you about the APS Press, APS Library, and Philadelphia! Stop by and say hello.

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Out now! Philadelphia, the Revolutionary City, a catalog accompanying the museum exhibition of the same title (visit now through Dec. 28 during APS Museum hours!) Buy your copy at the link: www.pennpress.org/978160618122...

10 Philly authors. 5 minutes each. Last night at the APS! We had so much fun getting to know accomplished local authors across genres. Thank you to everyone who joined us! If you would like to receive emails about upcoming publishing salons, send us a DM with your email address.

New issue of Transactions out now! Vol. 114 No. 2 revisits a 1939 symposium hosted by the APS on the totalitarian state. The foreword, written by APS Member Rogers Smith, is free to read for the time being on Project MUSE--don't miss out!

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On the Fringe of Princeton's Academic Establishment, Edward Tenner Roams the Fields of Technology and Culture Princeton, NJ – If we had to use animals to describe the Princeton-based author, Edward Tenner, we might say that he is a bear of researcher and a thoroughbred writer. The bear, roaming from topic...

Today on TAPinto Princeton, Richard K. Rein describes author Edward Tenner as "a bear of a researcher and a thoroughbred writer." Read more at the link, and catch Ed tonight (June 4) at 7 p.m. at the Princeton Public Library. Details here: princetonlibrary.libnet.info/event/13683416

The latest issue of Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, the journal from our friends at @amphilpress.bsky.social, reprints a 1939 symposium on totalitarianism. Read the introduction now, free for a limited time via @projectmuse.bsky.social!

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An Account of the Transit of Venus over the Sun, published in the APS Transactions (Vol 1) | American Philosophical Society Ink on paper in bound volume APS Members published their observations of the transit of Venus in the first issue of the APS Transactions. The Transactions series is still published today, making the A...

June 3, 1769 David Rittenhouse observed the transit of Venus, an event that was described in the first volume of Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, a journal we still publish today.

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Author: Edward Tenner in Conversation with Peter Dougherty International bestselling author Edward Tenner, joined in conversation by Peter J. Dougherty, presents his book "Why the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge: Essays in Unintended Consequences."

This Wednesday in Princeton! Author Edward Tenner in conversation with Peter Dougherty about his latest book, Why the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge.

On 6/11 we're hosting Local Author Speed Dating! Join us in Philly for refreshments, networking, and a slew of local authors who will each have a few short minutes to share their exciting work. Books will be sold on site by Head House Books.

Register here: www.amphilsoc.org/events/publi...

Out now! A packed double issue of Proceedings, with articles on the APS, bat extinction, David Rittenhouse, Renaissance Florence, Gilded-Age Buffalo, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, retroactive justice, higher education, and more. Read & subscribe here:

Vol. 165 Nos. 3&4 www.pennpress.org/journals/jou...

‘Our Contentious Universities’ Review: The State of the Campus A longtime administrator at two elite colleges considers the modern university’s travails. He has given up on the old idea of a core curriculum.

"Mr. Rudenstine writes cogently about the problems besetting higher education." Reviewed in the Wall Street Journal: Our Contentious Universities by Neil L. Rudenstine.

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