Michele Currie Navakas—professor of English at Miami University and a 2017–18 National Endowment of the Humanities fellow—tells the story of coral as an essential element of the marine ecosystem, a highly sought-after ornament used for display and adornment, a global commodity, and a powerful political metaphor.
The Huntington has acquired a historic portrait by Spanish master Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (“Goya”) (1746–1828). While The Huntington holds a number of Goya’s etchings and aquatints, Portrait of José Antonio Caballero, Second Marqués de Caballero, Secretary of Grace and Justice is the first Spanish oil painting to join The Huntington’s art collection and will complement its extensive holdings of Library materials on Spanish imperial history.
The extensive Los Angeles Area Court Records offer researchers invaluable evidence of everyday contestations over sexuality and gender relations in early California, the blurring of lines between sexual consent and coercion, and abuses of women whose economic survival was at stake.
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