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Honoring excellence and leadership. Working across disciplines and divides. Advancing the common good. From 1780 to today.
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The American Academy was founded in 1780, during the American Revolution, by John Adams, John Hancock, and 60 other scholar-patriots who understood that a new republic would require institutions able to gather knowledge and advance learning in service to the public good.
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Coordinates: 42°22′51″N 71°06′37″W. The House of the Academy, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.
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Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together "to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free ...
Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an independent policy research center that conducts multidisciplinary studies of complex and emerging problems. The Academy's elected members are leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business, and public affairs.