Web Exhibits

Dialogues with Darwin: An Exhibition of Historical Documents and Contemporary Art

Presented by the American Philosophical Society

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Dialogues with Darwin, an exhibition drawn from the American Philosophical Society’s own Darwin collection—the largest outside of Cambridge, England—celebrates the Darwin’s 200th birthday and the sesquicentennial of the publication of his book On the Origin of Species.

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Web of Healing

Presented by the University of Pennsylvania’s department of History and Sociology of Science

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The Web of Healing is designed to serve as a pedagogical and public history resource. As you explore the site, you will be guided through the process of “doing history” and given access to the world of healing and medicine in Philadelphia during the end of the 18th century.

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Josiah Clark Nott (1804–1873). Types of Mankind...., 1854. From the exhibit Dialogues with Darwin. Image courtesy of the American Philosophical Society.