The Society has constructed and collected a number of electronic resources useful for teaching and doing research in the history of science. Explore them using the links below.

Introduction to the History of Science in Non-Western Traditions now on-line

Teaching and In-Class Activities

Compiled by the HSS Committee on Education, these activities are proven winners in and out of the classroom.

Bibliographic Essays and Guides:

Reading the History of Science: A List of Good Places to Start, by A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Life Sciences in the Twentieth Century, by Garland E. Allen
Russian and Soviet Science and Technology, by Loren R. Graham
The History of Science: A Guide for Undergraduates, by Michael Crowe

Archived Newsletter Articles

A collection of articles which have appeared in the HSS Newsletter over the last six years. Includes selected articles from the Innovations in Education Series, as well as scholarly articles on Science and Religion, the Science Wars, and the Atomic Bomb, among others.

The Guide to the History of Science

This searchable online database contains entries on nearly 600 institutions, associations, and serial publications involved with the history of science, technology, and medicine. It also lists the names and e-mail addresses of over 5,000 historians and philosophers of science, and includes broad research interests for nearly 3,000. Updated twice a year, the Guide has incorporated and expanded upon several of the links pages formerly maintained by the Society.

Other Collected Links:

Below you will find the Focus sections from the most recent issues of Isis. The Focus sections are designed to attract readers in all areas of the field by dealing with themes that cut across chronological boundaries. Originally they were intended as tools for scholars who wished to explore new perspectives in the history of science. But they have proven to be valuable teaching tools as well and we therefore decided to make them more widely accessible.

• Focus: Mathematical Stories
  December 2006, 97:4
  
  Introduction, Amir R. Alexander
  Mathematics in Narratives of Geodetic Expeditions, Mary Terrall
  Historical Mathematics in the French Eighteenth Century, Joan L. Richards
  Tragic Mathematics: Romantic Narratives and the Refounding of Mathematics in the Early Nineteenth Century, Amir R. Alexander
  
  
• Focus: Getting Back to The Death of Nature: Rereading Carolyn Merchant
  September 2006, 97:3
  
  Introduction, Joan Cadden
  Women, Gender, and Utopia: The Death of Nature and the Historiography of Early Modern Science, Katharine Park
  Where Ecology, Nature, and Politics Meet: Reclaiming The Death of Nature, Gregg Mitman
  Back to Nature? Resurrecting Ecofeminism after Poststructuralist and Third-Wave Feminisms, Charis Thompson
  The Scientific Revolution and The Death of Nature, Carolyn Merchant
  
  
• Focus: Biography In The History Of Science
  June 2006, 97:2
  
  Introduction: Fragmented Lives, Joan L. Richards
  Biography as Cultural History of Science, Mary Terrall
  Is the Life of the Scientist a Scientific Unit?, Theodore M. Porter
  Scientific Biography: History of Science by Another Means?, Mary Jo Nye

 

Research Tools

• Papers and Manuscripts of Noted Scientists
• Electronic Resources (Webliographies, Databases, Video Lists, Listservs)

Funding Tools

• Grants, Prizes, and Short-Term Fellowships
• Jobs, Post-Doctoral Fellowships, Longer-Term Fellowships

HSTM Online Bibliographic Database (Members Only)

Compiled through the profession efforts of HSS, the Society for the History of Technology, the Wellcome Trust, and the Instituto e Museo di Storia della Scienze, this Internet database contains over 245,000 bibliographic entries on primary and secondary sources in the history of science, technology, and medicine.

This page last modified: 2 March, 2007