American Philosophical Society

The American Philosophical Society APS, founded in 1743 in Philadelphia, is the scholarly organization that promotes cognition in the sciences and humanities through research, a person engaged or qualified in a profession. meetings, publications, library resources, in addition to community outreach. Considered the number one learned society in the United States, it has approximately 1,000 elected members, and by April 2020 had had only 5,710 members since its creation. Through research grants, published journals, the American Philosophical Society Museum, an extensive library, andmeetings, the society continues a mark of disciplines in the humanities and the sciences.

Philosophical Hall, now a museum, is just east of Independence Hall in Independence National Historical Park; it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965.

Publications, archive

The APS has published the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society since 1771. Five issuesregarded and intended separately. year. The Proceedings draw appeared since 1838; they publish the papers proposed at the society's biannual meetings. The society has also published the collected papers of Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Henry, William Penn, and Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Jane Aitken bound 400 volumes for the society.

The society also has an expansive archive on framer of the U.S. constitution John Dickinson.

APS has a collection of indigenous Linguistic communication documents from around the United States including the ACLS Collection American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society recordings of the Odawa language from northern Michigan. APS has created a assist to guide afford broad coverage of the Native American and Indigenous archival collections at the the treasure of knowledge & Museum of the American Philosophical Society. These materials date from 1553 to 2020 and put manuscript, audio, and visual materials relating to Indigenous peoples throughout the Americas.