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This book explores the history and treatment of diabetes. It focuses on the nineteenth-century understanding of the disease and medicine's attempts to grapple with the disorder for the past two...

Rudolf Strothmann (1877-1960) played a pioneering role in the scholarly exploration of Shīʿī Islam in Western, especially German, scholarship. Between 1910 and 1923, he published many...

How Benjamin Franklin's life and legacy have been used, misused, interpreted, and reinterpreted throughout American history and popular culture A teenage runaway whose face later appeared on the...

Scythopolis, or Nysa-Scythopolis, as Beth Shean was called during the Hellenistic and Roman periods, is located on the western bank of the Jordan River. Ancient historians Pliny and Solinus record...

Edward Duffield : Philadelphia Clockmaker, Citizen, Gentleman, 1730-1803Author: Bob FrishmanPublisher: American Philosophical Society PressPublication Date: Aug 20, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

Based on a symposium hosted by the American Philosophical Society, Evidence: The Use and Misuse of Data brings together essays from scholars representing a host of disciplines from statistics through...

John Milton's 100-line hexameter poem Mansus is, on first impression, merely a poem of praise for Giovanni Battista Manso, the old Neapolitan nobleman and patron of poets whom Milton met on his...

Although Benjamin Franklin never set foot in Spain, from 1774 until his death in 1790 he maintained contact and correspondence with a wide range of Spanish officials and intellectuals. As a diplomat,...

The life and times of extraordinary Philadelphia art collector Albert C. Barnes Philadelphia art collector Albert C. Barnes (1872-1951) is renowned today for collecting many of the world's most...

In The Other Presidency, Patrick Spero resurrects an overlooked but essential part of Thomas Jefferson's life. For nearly seventeen years, Jefferson served as President of the American Philosophical...

In a letter to his wife, Abigail, John Adams judged the author of Common Sense as having "a better hand at pulling down than building." Adams's dismissive remark has helped shape the prevailing view...