Athenaeum of Philadelphia
Welcome to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia. The Athenaeum was established in 1814 as a subscription library, at a time when the free public library system did not exist and collections of books, available for reading or research, were still mostly limited to institutions, schools or colleges.
The Athenaeum of Philadelphia nurtures curiosity in members and neighbors, strengthening community through learning and discourse.
The Athenaeum of Philadelphia is one of 16 membership libraries that collaborate through the Membership Libraries Group. Some, like the Charleston (est. 1748), New York Society (est. 1754), and Newport (est. 1741) libraries, date from the 18th Century.
Disunion Among Ourselves: The Perilous Politics of the American Revolution
Eli Merritt
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
Ned Blackhawk
A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems
Joseph L Graves
University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District
Laura Wolf-Powers
Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast
Joan Dejean
Publishing Plates: Stereotyping and Electrotyping in Nineteenth-Century Us Print Culture
Jeffrey M. Makala
Empire of Ruins: American Culture, Photography, and the Spectacle of Destruction
Miles Orvell
Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776
Patrick Spero
The Art of the Peales in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Adaptations and Innovations
Carol Eaton Soltis
The Sleeve Should Be Illegal: & Other Reflections on Art at the Frick
Michaelyn Mitchell
Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever
Kareem Rosser
Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast
Joan Dejean
The Paradox of Urban Revitalization: Progress and Poverty in America's Postindustrial Era
Howard Gillette
The Guns of John Moses Browning: The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World
Nathan Gorenstein
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World
Michael Frank and Maira Kalman
The Dark Remains: A Laidlaw Investigation (Jack Laidlaw Novels Prequel)
Ian Rankin and William McIlvanney
The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II
Judith Mackrell
Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
Alan H. Goodman and Joseph L. Graves
Revolutionary Conceptions: Women, Fertility, and Family Limitation in America, 1760-1820
Susan E. Klepp
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Heather McGhee
Delaware Naturalist Handbook
Out in Central Pennsylvania: The History of an LGBTQ Community
William Burton and Barry Loveland
Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
Dana Stevens
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
Dennis Duncan
The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II
Judith Mackrell
Madam C. J. Walker's Gospel of Giving: Black Women's Philanthropy During Jim Crow
Tyrone McKinley Freeman
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
Eddie S. Glaude
Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
Catherine Kerrison
Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World
Andrea Barnet
