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More on AAAS History
A bibliography of books and articles that describe different aspects and periods of AAAS history.

• American Science in an Age of Anxiety: Scientists, Anticommunists, and the Cold War
  
  
  
• Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political Activists in 1930s America
  
  
  
• Margaret Mead's Approach to Controversial Public Issues: Racial Boycotts in the AAAS
  
  
  
• Psychologists in Service to Science: The American Psychological Association
  
  
  
• Renewing a Scientific Society: The American Association for the Advancement of Science from World War II to 1970
  
  
  
• Science and James McKeen Cattell, 1894 to 1945
  
  
  
• Science in the Federal Government: A History of Policies and Activities
  
  
  
• Science in Transition, 1946 to 1962
  
  
  
• Science: The Struggle for Survival, 1880 to 1894
  
  
  
• Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion
  
  
  
• The Blow-by-Blow Story of NASA, AAAS, Stanford and the Martian Meteorite
  
  
  
• The Establishment of Science in America: 150 Years of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  
  
  
• The Formation of the American Scientific Community: The American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1848-1860
  
  
  
• The Maturing of American Science: A portrait of science in public life drawn from presidential addressess of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1920-1970
  
  
  
• The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America
  
  
  
• Women Scientists in America: Before Affirmative Action 1940-1972
  
  
  
• Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940