Editing American Philosophical Society (section)

== Publications ==
The society has published the ''Transactions of the American Philosophical Society'' since 1771. Five issues appear each year. The ''[[Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society|Proceedings]]'' have appeared since 1838; they publish the papers delivered at the society's biannual meetings. The society has also published [[The Papers of Benjamin Franklin]], [[Joseph Henry]], [[William Penn]], and [[Meriwether Lewis]] and [[William Clark]]. [[Jane Aitken]] bound 400 volumes for the society.{{sfn|James|1971|p=26}}

The society also has an expansive archive on framer of the [[U.S. constitution]] [[John Dickinson]].<ref>{{cite web |title=John H. Powell Collection of John Dickinson Research |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.D553p.m-ead.xml |website=American Philosophical Society |access-date=May 26, 2020 |archive-date=October 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201012165857/https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.D553p.m-ead.xml |url-status=live }}</ref>

APS holds the ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) which is a collection of indigenous language documents from around the United States including recordings of the [[Ottawa dialect|Odawa language]] from northern Michigan.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Languages |first=American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American |title=American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society [ACLS Collection]: Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml |access-date=April 7, 2022 |website=search.amphilsoc.org |archive-date=April 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407180837/https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml |url-status=live }}</ref> APS has created a guide<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home {{!}} Guide to the Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society |url=https://indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org/ |access-date=April 7, 2022 |website=indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org |archive-date=April 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220411211528/https://indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref> to help provide broad coverage of the Native American and Indigenous archival collections at the Library & Museum of the American Philosophical Society. These materials date from 1553 to 2020 and include manuscript, audio, and visual materials relating to Indigenous peoples throughout the Americas.

The society also has a collection of manuscripts on the history of the British colonies, Revolutionary War, the history of American science, quantum physics, Charles Darwin and evolution, genetics and the history of technology.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=Murphy D. |date=December 1, 1989 |title=Manuscript Collecting at the American Philosophical Society: The First 101 Years |journal=[[Journal of the History of Collections]] |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=197–206 |doi=10.1093/JHC/1.2.197}}</ref>